a few years ago laura and daron and moveon and i made a little film about challenges to net neutrality. and, well, almost no one cared. which is sort of understandable, as it seemed like a distant and esoteric issue. but, like herpes and the ghosts in poltergeist, it’s baack.
here’s the film we made:
here’s a sort-of explanation of the issue: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/whats_next_for_fcc_on_net_neut.html
essentially the internet is currently egalitarian and equally accessible for all. that’s net neutrality. big telecoms want to overturn this and charge more for access to high-speed, broadband internet access. most people, that i know, anyway, think that the internet works pretty well with net neutrality and that net neutrality should be maintained. i’m posting this just to make people aware of the issue, in the hope that congress and big telecoms will be less likely to take away people’s access to high-speed internet if people are actually aware of what’s going on.
thanks,
moby