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US court deals heavy blow against Web freedom
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Tuesday January 14, 2014 21:32 by newsmedia
Greedy ISPs move to cash in on providing tiered Internet access Three judges sitting at the court rejected the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order appeal on the grounds that its Net Neutrality was founded on 'questionable legal framework' when the agency adopted its Net Neutrality rules in 2010. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Firstly, it is good that there will be an appeal to this awful ruling, but should it stick and given the climate of corporate control of society, it may, then this ruling would allow ISPs and Telecos to effectively price out of existence alternative and independent sites such as Indymedia, but more importantly many of the thousands of blogs and other independent news sites that don't have the big budgets. The way it would work is that they would impose costs for downloads from a site, so the more traffic it got, the more its costs would go up and it would be a self limiting thing for sites run on little or no costs and often run by volunteers or personnel effort.
It could easily effect the way search engines do their job too, because the incentive would quickly change so that it is only cost effective to properly index the big commercial sites.
In many ways this parallels the development of radio. In the early days of radio, if you wanted one, you bought a kit and assembled it yourself, but it also meant the early days of radio were full of enthusiasts and it was very open and all sorts of people were transmitting all kinds of things. Apparently there was a real buzz with it. Then state control stepped in and said you need a license to transmit. That effectively killed it. The difference here is that loss of Net Neutrality means you will find it hard to get any traffic to or from your site without some kind of commercial backing and given commercialism is by its nature part of the corporate controlled right wing capitalist system, then that kills off nearly everything else
It was kind of inevitable that the internet would be curtailed at some stage , despite it's substantial dark side it's given access to information and international communication on a previously unseen scale. I'm not sure if it was an experiment that got out of hand by the powers that be but it's definitely created some issues for them and opened doors that can't be closed. I know a lot of posters on this site seem to be pretty left brained ( no offense ) but it's probably time we stepped it up a gear and evolved ourselves instead of being reliant on technology.