1-Blog
a journey through space and time

Net Neutrality
Posted 25th April 2006 at 6:01pm by M1ke, tagged as Internet, News, Politics | Commenting Closed

It may come as a shock to some readers, but the internet isn't without governance - there are backbone servers, name servers and linking servers that list IP addresses, web address and transfer people around the net. These have to be owned by some companies, and action by these companies in America is threatening, through their political system, to give them power to choose who gets to connect to where - if a company pays less, their site loads slower (SaveTheNet). Now I'm not directly sure how much this impacts England, but a situation such as this in any part of the internet could compromise the whole damned thing. Unfortunately the campaign against this is being carried out in America, as they can lobby their own member of congress, but I'm making you aware of it here. I'm going to find some UK site about this to see how we can get a say/if it affects us directly, but whatever the result of that is - fight the power!

I found out about this from the Ctrl-Alt-Delete webcomic, and it's always nice to see gamers are still the first to react when anything threatens the internet (CAD). It may have been created for science, but gamers brought it forward.

<- Previous, Free File Storage <-

-> Next, No Spam in G ->