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An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is stopping us!

by: Rusell McOrmond

Whenever the discussion of “Net Neutrality” comes up we often get stuck with how the current network is configured, who provides it, and other historical issues. I would like to toss out that history for a moment and offer what I believe to be an ideal, talk about transition issues, as well as some of winners and losers in that transition (and thus who the greatest opponents are)

Future network infrastructure

Software jumps China's firewall for news from Tibet

by: CBC News

A Vancouver human rights group is using software developed in Toronto to help break open China's locks on internet content about violence in Tibet.

Robert Guerra of the human rights group Privaterra says repressive governments such as China target video-sharing websites. Read more »

CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent

by: Michael Geist Read more »

Venezuelan Community TV

by: Justin Podur

Interview With Blanca Eekhout, Director Of Vive.

Adbusters loses court battle for airtime

by: Adbusters

On Monday, February 18, Adbusters lost its court battle against two of Canada's television networks that refused to sell airtime for its commercials. Adbusters claimed the CBC and CanWest Global had violated its right to free speech under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by refusing to sell air time, but the court decided that the Charter does not apply to private corporations. Read more »

Courting Industry in The Net Neutrality Debate

by: Kenneth Corbin

Net Neutrality advocates tell Web marketers that the red-hot issue isn't just a concern for the policy wonks.

If Internet neutrality is ever going to be the law of the land, businesses are going to have to join the movement, insisted two of the more outspoken advocates of a national broadband policy to bar Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or degrading certain network traffic. Read more »