Sunday, October 4, 2009

Good evening everyone! I was searching around the internet for some more information and cases on Net Neutrality but kept finding more of the same especially with it making a revival in the news as of late due to the happenings in Washington, DC. However, I did some digging back to a 2006 NPR interview with the authors of "Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless world". It is your basic NPR interview but it is interesting It talks of how the internet is supposed to be this free, borderless platform for information but in actuality it isn't. It talks about cases where individual countries such as China and France have successfully managed to regulate the internet in their respective countries. For me, it just made me think of the fundamental problem of net nuetrality-- the United States wholeheartedly believes in freedom of speech; however, other countries don't and thusly feel that is okay to heavily regulate the internet. Who is right?

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  1. I didn't get a chance to listen to the entire interview, but I agree that it brings up an interesting point. How do countries define how they have "successfully regulated" the Internet? By blocking out anything that is critical or uses freedom speech at all? If the U.S. was to regulate the Internet, I wonder how they would define that type of success...

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