The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes.
The new rules, approved 3 to 2 along party lines, are intended to ensure that no content is blocked and that the Internet is not divided into pay-to-play fast lanes for Internet and media companies that can afford it and slow lanes for everyone else. Those prohibitions are hallmarks of the net neutrality concept.
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Every machine in China has the potential be a part of a massive DDOS attack on innocent sites. As my colleague Sean quipped, ‘They have weaponized their entire population.’
via China’s Great Firewall is demolishing foreign websites—and nobody knows why – Quartz.
… because the content bore no relationship to the advertised product !
via ASA Adjudication on Kazam Online Ltd – Advertising Standards Authority.
Les cinq commissaires qui dirigent la FCC doivent dire, dans les prochaines heures, si l’Internet américain doit désormais être considéré comme un « bien public » au même titre que le réseau téléphonique, ce qui donnerait à la Commission le pouvoir de faire appliquer la neutralité d’Internet sur le territoire américain.
via Etape décisive pour la neutralité du Net aux Etats-Unis.
Most truck drivers won’t have those jobs 10 years from now…
via Productivity Future Vision – Microsoft.
Mark Zuckerberg is planning to build a waterside town next to the firm’s San Francisco headquarters.
The 200-acre plot will be turned into Facebook’s own company town, complete with supermarkets, hotels and homes for 10,000 of its employees and their families.
via Mark Zuckerberg plans waterside development for Facebook staff | Daily Mail Online.
Our Friends – Facebook on Vimeo.
Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than one billion users each month. Still, YouTube hasn’t become a profitable business.
