No More Throttling
SaveOurNet.ca's own Steve Anderson wrote an article regarding net neutrality and the generative world, which was published on rabble.ca, VUE Weekly, the Tyee and Common Ground. Here is a preview of the article:
The explosion of innovation and collaboration unleashed by the open Internet is the creative expression that the Internet's generative platform has provided us. The big telecom companies did not initially intend to provide access to these unsanctioned services when they began selling access to the Internet.
It's reasonable to assume that talk about the need to avoid the unintended consequences of the open Internet is coming only from ISPs who are pretending to care about open innovation. What they're really talking about -- and hoping to avoid -- is innovative content and services that come from users instead of rigid old telecom companies.
From the ground up, online innovation is the unintended consequence that ISPs would like to avoid. After all, these are the very services that are succeeding at the expense of ISP TV and phone assets.
Read the rest on the Tyee's website.
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