Dan Bull responds to Lord Mandelson (”Dan Bull – Dear Mandy – an open letter to Lord Mandelson”)
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The Distraction of Transparency: an ACTA News Roundup
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Senators have begun to express concern over the secrecy and content of ACTA, while the MPAA, RIAA ,,, rush to reassure them that ACTA — will be good for business and that "transparency is a distraction".
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Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
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The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry...
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Internet Governance Forum 2009 - II
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According to Sir Berners Lee, taking care of the "human side" of the web is possible only by creating a new organization different than the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that is also led by Berners Lee himself.
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The Importance of an Open Internet
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Being against net neutrality is one of those arguments that on first glance seems reasonable. The power company, after all, charges us more as we consume more electricity--why shouldn't Internet carriers be allowed to charge based on data load and regulate traffic accordingly?
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How to Increase Your Internet Speed on Ubuntu
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Do you want your Internet speed to fly through the roof? I bet you do. Here are a couple of simple ways to get a nice Internet speed boost.
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Maintaining status quo is lesser evil
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"Reporters Without Borders prefers a continuation of the status quo in international Internet governance rather than the creation of an inter-governmental system to replace the existing oversight by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a California-based non-profit..."
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New ICANN Agreement Runs Into Criticism
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"...The agreement, announced Wednesday, seemed to enjoy widespread support, but some critics questioned how new review teams overseeing ICANN would be independent and whether the new agreement represented average Internet users..." — see also: Public denounced ICA
Read more »version 2 of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSRv2) protocol for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs)
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"...OLSRv2 is developed for mobile ad hoc networks. It operates as a table driven, proactive protocol, i.e. it exchanges topology information with other routers in the network regularly. OLSRv2 is an optimization of the classical link state routing protocol. Its key concept is that of MultiPoint Relays (MPRs).
Read more »Sign petition for open Internet in Europe
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This petition is up for signature in light of the decisions affecting the open Internet being taken at European level, and in reaction to the statement made in the USA on 21 September by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe! - Open letter to the European Parliament
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"Paris, September 16th 2009 - We Must Protect Net Neutrality1 in Europe! Organizations from all around Europe share their concern of seeing Net Neutrality being sacrificed during the conciliation procedure of the directives of the EU Telecoms Package.
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What Microsoft Doesn't Get - And What I Hope You Do
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You know what Microsoft doesn't get? -- For one thing, the Internet. Microsoft doesn't control it. What it used to be able to do in the dark now falls out of its noxious bag of tricks into the Internet's bright light, stage front and center. And there stands Microsoft in the spotlight, with its pants down, and let me tell you, it's not a pretty sight.
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Anonymous Declares War on Australia
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Public denounced ICANN
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RMS: « The organizations of non-commercial users of the Internet denounced ICANN for giving too much weight to the interests of business. This is what happens under governments in which democracy has been corrupted by business power. »
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Thoughts about ISPs, privacy and GNUnet
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Most of Moscow's ISPs blocked PirateBay's BitTorrent tracker. That forced me to thought about privacy, anonymity and freedom-related questions in Internet. And possible solutions to stay free and protected from moneyloving ISPs and their "rulers".
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