Net Neutrality: We Need a Better Deal

Eric Klinker Bittorrent Blog
If Internet service providers are allowed to give preferential treatment to certain kinds of traffic, the open Internet will have been paywalled shut. The solution lies in fairer regulation and in better, more people-powered technology.

‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround as F.C.C. Plans for a Fast Lane

By Edward Wyatt The New York Times
The proposed rules are a turnaround for the agency on what is known as net neutrality — the idea that Internet users should have equal ability to see any legal content they choose, and that no providers of legal content should be discriminated against in providing their offerings to consumers.

Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Robert Reich Robert Reich's blog
Some argue that the broadband market already has been carved up into a cartel, so blocking the acquisition would do little to bring down prices. Washington should examine a larger question beyond whether the deal is good or bad for consumers: Is it good for our democracy? We haven’t needed to ask this question for more than a century because America hasn’t experienced the present concentration of economic wealth and power in more than a century.

Edward Snowden: How We Take Back the Internet

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 (Mar 18) about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
 

How Heartbleed Broke the Internet — And Why It Can Happen Again

Robert McMillan Wired
The sad truth is that open source software — which underpins vast swathes of the net — has a serious sustainability problem. Money doesn’t necessarily buy good code, but it pays for software audits and face-to-face meetings, and it can free up open-source coders from their day jobs.
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