Net neutrality Educause has teamed up with Internet 2 to fight for net neutrality. What is net neutrality? It's the idea that your internet provider can't tell you what to do on the Internet. From the Educause Talking Points, here are some of the things that cable and telephone providers have done that fall outside the scope of net neutrality and are the kinds of things new legislation is designed to prevent:

a. A telephone company blocked its broadband customers from using
VOIP telephone service because it could take revenue away from the
company’s phone services.
b. A cable company ordered consumers working from home to stop using
their broadband connection to log into their employer’s “virtual private
network” and tried to sell them a higher-priced alternative service.
c. An Internet provider in Canada blocked access to a web site run by the
labor union involved in a dispute with the ISP.
d. The CEO of SBC told Business Week that companies such as Google,
Yahoo, and Vonage would not be permitted to connect to SBC
broadband customers without additional compensation to SBC.

Educause has some links to more information, plus here are some recent articles:

New network neutrality legislation on its way

Techdirt:Telcos Back Off On Net Neutrality? For A Price.

WSJ.com - Consumers Could See New Web Rates: Use More, Pay More

Techdirt:No Network Neutrality, No Internet... And That's Just What Telcos Want

Techdirt:Verizon Exec Whines About Google Spiking The Kool-Aid At Its Free Lunch


net neutrality ¶ 9:46 PM, posted by Laura