net neutrality – Andrew Orlowski

ISPs: beware of paranoid bloggers with a persecution complex, warns Ofcom

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Andrew Orlowski

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27 August 2010

Exclusive Ofcom will encourage ISPs to be transparent about traffic management, but won’t ask them to detail the information in a standard format, according to meeting notes seen by The Register. The regulator is sounding out opinion from ISPs and consumer groups on traffic management, which it sees as the only aspect of the US…

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How neutrality locks in the web’s ‘Hyper Giants’

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Andrew Orlowski

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9 August 2010

By the mid 1990s it had become pointless to compete with Microsoft in operating systems and office software – and investment in potential competitors dried up. The best you could hope for as a software company was to carve out a niche as part of the Windows Office system; this was a very small niche…

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Net Neutrality: the Good Guys always were white

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Andrew Orlowski

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18 January 2010

Delicious news from the United States, where ‘Net Neutrality’ is again being recast for a new political purpose. The term long since ceased to mean anything – it now means anything you want it to mean. But as a rule of thumb, advocating Neutrality means giving your support to general Goodness on the internets, and…

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Google’s doing to Twitterbook what it’s doing to copyright

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Andrew Orlowski

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1 June 2009

Google has two prongs to its long-term strategy, but Wave, the “digital dashboard” it unveiled last week, casts light on a third. One strategy is to drive down the value of copyright material on the internet to zero. Google has a ruthless and calculating view of the real value of stuff. It reasons that if…

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Google writes the internet’s first rule book

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Andrew Orlowski

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15 October 2008

The regulator’s rule book for deciding what is permissible on today’s roads is very thick indeed. The content, behaviour and performance of “stuff on roads” is massive, and grows by the day. Try hot-rodding your lawnmower – or deciding that on Thursdays, you will only make left turns, and see how far you get. By…

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FCC: making a rulebook out of metaphors

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Andrew Orlowski

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4 August 2008

Regulators and network operators across the world will be watching events unfold in Washington DC with some astonishment today, as the US telecoms industry becomes embroiled in a bureaucratic farce. Late last week, the US regulator the Federal Communications Commission issued a landmark assertion of authority over how American operators should manage their networks –…

Tag: net neutrality

ISPs: beware of paranoid bloggers with a persecution complex, warns Ofcom

How neutrality locks in the web’s ‘Hyper Giants’

Net Neutrality: the Good Guys always were white

Google’s doing to Twitterbook what it’s doing to copyright

Google writes the internet’s first rule book

FCC: making a rulebook out of metaphors