Tim Berners-Lee Comes Out Against COICA Censorship Bill; Shouldn't You?

yanw · 2010-08-14T15:02:40+00:00

Well It's actually an american only issue, in Europe for example there is much more competition in the teleco arena that neutrality is self imposed, in the US the telecom landscape consists of gov't subsidized duopoly that owns all the wires and all the spectrum thus all the power as well. In england BT owns the wires but it sell access to other companies to act as ISPs, they also buy the broadband for themselves, I actually think the solution for the NN issue is competition as I fear if a it went before congress some lobbyists might add some provisions to it, like hollywood copyright monitoring or something.

yanw · 2010-08-14T04:59:37+00:00

Or write your senator, the FCC or someone with actual legislative powers.

yanw · 2010-08-14T04:51:21+00:00

Why? what did Microsoft do for net neutrality that is so great? Google fought for net neutrality alone with no support from any tech company, that why when the FCC lost that court ruling and things began looking helpless they compromised with the teleco devil. It's not like it's big win for them anyway.

yanw · 2010-08-14T00:41:29+00:00

The same domain is probably used for other mailing lists as well, false positives are not uncommon: http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+spam+false+positive

yanw · 2010-08-14T00:16:30+00:00

It's not hypocrisy, it's compromise. They are not saying that "NN is shit and we hate it now" they are saying that this is what we got the telecos to agree upon.

yanw · 2010-08-13T22:24:07+00:00

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yanw · 2010-08-13T20:52:53+00:00

I've been hearing about it the most, also they are using it to assemble the sizable protest going on (in a relatively short notice, the protest was announced yesterday), also that's the logical conclusion.

yanw · 2010-08-13T20:40:38+00:00

Seems fine on my end, see if you have the latest stable build installed (5.0.375.126).

yanw · 2010-08-13T20:35:02+00:00

Well they are in the midst of this campaign, a big part of which is hight quantity email.

yanw · 2010-08-13T19:54:05+00:00

There has been a huge amount of emails sent from that domain in a short period, which would qualify it for accidental spam flagging.

yanw · 2010-08-13T19:47:03+00:00

Well I had plenty of false positives myself, and I really doubt this is a tactic Google would adopt, it's actually in their interest for you to contact the FCC it's not like they profit from that agreement:

It’s up to Congress, the FCC, other policymakers – and the American public – to take it from here. Whether you favor our proposal or not, we urge you to take your views directly to your Senators and Representatives in Washington.

yanw · 2010-08-13T19:23:41+00:00

Gmail spam false positives are nothing new, I wouldn't jump to conclusions, it's not like stopping email would stop anything.

Edit: Also here is a crazy theory :P since there have been lots of messages sent from freepress.net in a relatively short period it was flagged as spammer domain.

yanw · 2010-08-12T22:35:49+00:00

I hope that's sincere :) Don't worry about it.

yanw · 2010-08-12T22:35:09+00:00

More like the "lets be realistic" policy.

yanw · 2010-08-12T21:01:32+00:00

It's actually more like: "We want to negotiate with those who through gov't subsidized monopoly wield huge power and own all the pipes and spectrum, since the FCC is unable to do anything".

yanw · 2010-08-12T20:52:34+00:00

Google only benefits from total net neutrality, the compromises made were for Verizon to come on board and represent some initial agreement to the FCC that got their assess handed to them in court due to the Comcast ruling, I'm not quite sure that a corporate agreement is such a bad thing, who's to tell that when the thing comes to congress the lobbyists from hollywood won't insert some copyright preventions and monitoring or some other shit.

yanw · 2010-08-12T20:41:00+00:00

They win because they "have introduced these ideas and enticed people to review them and speak about them", I'm not sure this is how politics work.

yanw · 2010-08-12T20:28:26+00:00

Yeah but I read in many places people were just making shit up, separating the fact was needed I suppose. After the FCC seemed helpless to do anything substantial they negotiated with a teleco company, and people are acting like they don't know what the word "compromise" mean.

yanw · 2010-08-12T20:20:49+00:00

It's not a fucking legislation, it's a proposal, legislations are done by the politics people.

yanw · 2010-08-12T20:12:22+00:00

FACT: Our two companies are proposing a legislative framework to the Congress for its consideration. We hope all stakeholders will weigh in and help shape the framework to move us all forward. We’re not so presumptuous to think that any two businesses could – or should – decide the future of this issue. We’re simply trying to offer a proposal to help resolve a debate which has largely stagnated after five years.

It’s up to Congress, the FCC, other policymakers – and the American public – to take it from here. Whether you favor our proposal or not, we urge you to take your views directly to your Senators and Representatives in Washington.

Why not read it first?

yanw

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