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Next Up for Nationalization: the Internet by Phil Kerpen on NRO Financial
Network neutrality, or net neutrality, is the beneficent-sounding name for sweeping new government regulatory power that would prohibit Internet service providers from innovating in their own networks. This could lead to much less broadband investment by private companies, and could potentially force government subsidization, control, and outright nationalization of the Internet. The implications of this are chilling.
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Bloomberg.com: Technology
AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. will probably face new Internet rules backed by Google Inc. under Barack Obama's administration, and find it more difficult to persuade the government to approve acquisitions.
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Wired Campus: An Obama Administration May Favor Net Neutrality - Chronicle.com
“The Democratic president-elect’s top technology priorities include ‘network neutrality’ policies that would bar Internet-service providers from accepting payments to make some Web sites work faster than others.”
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Kentucky Say It Follows ICANN Rules in Effort to Seize Gambling Domains | Gambling911.com
The domain names clearly are "property" that the state can seize, the state brief said, citing court decisions dating to 1996. By violating Kentucky law, the sites have violated the UDRP -- to which all domain registrants agree -- opening themselves to seizure if their registrars do business with the state, Kentucky said.
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Ruling in Kentucky domains case expected next week
Defense attorneys had their day in court Tuesday as they tried to convince Judge Thomas Wingate to dismiss Kentucky's attempt to seize 141 online gambling domains.
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Kentucky Tests State's Reach Against Online Gambling - washingtonpost.com
An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet.
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Kevin Martin: Net Neutrality Hero? - LLFCC.NET
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Internet: protect the web, says creator Berners-Lee | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Researchers have a "duty" to protect the future of the world wide web, according to its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.
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Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic
Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday.
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FCC chief says Comcast violated Internet rules - Internet- msnbc.com
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet overhaul wins approval
The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on
so-called "top-level" domain names, such as .com or .uk.
The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while
individuals could use their names.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Shake-up' for internet proposed
The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into domain names
while individuals could also carve out their own corner of the net.
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Introductory Remarks from Innovation '08
Richard Bennett opposed net neutrality - "I'm opposed to net neutrality regulations because they foreclose some engineering options that we're going to need for the Internet to become the one true general-purpose network that links all of us to each other, connects all our devices to all our information, and makes the world a better place."
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Should Google have to pay for bandwidth? - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine
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