qweloo
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| Very interesting PBS documentary - The Net at risk - youtube
Found this on youtube and thought people could find it interesting. A good summary and examination of the 2 sides in the ongoing debate/battle.
PBS documentary - Moyers on america - The net at risk
Originally aired: 2006.10.18
"The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively eliminated net neutrality rules, which ensured that every content creator on the Internet-from big-time media concerns to backroom bloggers-had equal opportunity to make their voice heard. Now, large and powerful corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the World Wide Web into what critics call a "toll road," threatening the equitability that has come to define global democracy's newest forum. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors on Capitol Hill.
Some activists describe the ongoing debate this way: A small number of mega-media giants owns much of the content and controls the delivery of content on radio and television and in the press; if we let them take control of the Internet as well, immune from government regulation, who will pay the price? Their opponents say that the best way to encourage Internet innovation and technological advances is to let the market-not the federal government-determine the shape of the system.
Mike McCurry, co-chairman of Hands off the Internet, a coalition of telecommunication-related businesses, and Ben Scott, policy director of the nonpartisan public interest organization Free Press, which advocates in favor of net neutrality, and representative of SaveTheInternet.com, will respond to the program, each other, and to viewers' comments. "
more info: »www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonameri···dex.html
»www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/
Part 1/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmlpfXzSfhg
Part 2/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDY8eWUmRZ8
Part 3/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeA1OijVmCA
Part 4/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCzW2QM7tqw
Part 5/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlsD2QnseI
Part 6/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ-dfxd1wqo
Part 7/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVejQVcP8FI
Part 8/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ4CpwuOBqM
Part 9/9
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=875xm-71YtI
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R0CKY
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R0CKY
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| That was a loaded documentary.... It spread across a bunch of issues but in general was pretty well thought out!
.... Hehehe... it's definitely a slap in the face to the biggies though.
One thing I do however very much agree with is that the next half decade is going to shape things for quite a few years to come!
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must see
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| said by R0CKY  :That was a loaded documentary.... It spread across a bunch of issues but in general was pretty well thought out! .... Hehehe... it's definitely a slap in the face to the biggies though. One thing I do however very much agree with is that the next half decade is going to shape things for quite a few years to come! It was a bit of an eye-opener touching base on various topics of interest. I found it also touched base with who's hand is who's pocket as well. Not to mention media control, political control, and control in gerneral.
Mandatory viewing...
TY for the links to that qweloo  |
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must see
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| I forgot to add...
If you are a sympatico user, I don't recommend watching all of it since you may lose your internet access due to abuse of bandwidth on these big media streams about big telco.
couldn't help it, cheap shot  |
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R0CKY
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| said by must see :I forgot to add... If you are a sympatico user, I don't recommend watching all of it since you may lose your internet access due to abuse of bandwidth on these big media streams about big telco. couldn't help it, cheap shot
LOL
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Angelo_
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join:2002-06-18 | reply to qweloo
if someone wants to sue them you can... but trhe question is who'd take the blame... |
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Angelo_
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ps rocky i still think you guys should become a telco  |
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R0CKY
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| said by Angelo_ :ps rocky i still think you guys should become a telco Hehehe... If you have about 100M or so to spare... we're in!
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Angelo_
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join:2002-06-18 | i'll keep it in mind when i talk to people :P |
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qweloo
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1 edit | reply to qweloo
Thanks for the replies. I was sure that some would find this an interesting and timely topic.
Interestingly enough and as a comparison on how the post has been received, the above posting has been considered inappropriate or off-topic on the dslreports bell sympatico forum and therefore was moderated/deleted by the mod.
While here, Rocky is the first to reply back saying how he appreciated the post.
Draw your own conclusions.
I did not post this in any other forums (rogers, videotron, telus etc) nor intend to, since I have only subscribed to bell and teksavvy internet services.
I think what I take out of the documentary is that telecommunications in its broad meaning (phone, internet, tv, radio) should not be considered like any other common business. Like newspapers/journalism are not like any other common business and is usually protected by principles of freedom of the press in any democratic country.
It is not like any other business because a lot of how our society works on many level (economic, government, free speech, fair democratic process, fair elections etc ) depends on the fair access to the means of communication (as described in the documentary).
I think when the cold war was going on, this was much clearer because western democracies were under permanent threat. That is why you had regulatory bodies and monopolies 20 years ago. Now that threat is over. People tend to forget the principles that has worked before. They want to consider it like any other common business so that rules can be changed in order to make more money.
So after years of deregulation, now we reach a fracture point where the changes, brought in part by technology and in part by revenue growth addiction, are so great that you have to ask questions like: How far do we want to go ? should we go so far as to abandon the principles (like neutrality) that has worked since the invention of the telegraph ? and if the answer is yes then what will emerge at the other end ? would it be better or would it be some kind of revised/kinder version of Orwell's 1984 disguised under the cloak of capitalism and half-democracy ?
No one knows for sure.
But at least we know that the old principles have worked in the past. But the new rules, or rather the absence of rules except the ones made by the big telcos through their lobbys, have never been tested. |
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Your might want to get rid of the unless of course you have found 100M to spare and have something in the works..... 
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