It's Our Net
Lots of bloggers have been paying attention to the issue of Net Neutrality lately. If you’ve been tuning out, there’s a push from telcos to create tiered service for Internet access, based on charging more for different classes of connection. Scientific American published a pretty fair editorial on the topic, which reaches a clear conclusion:
A system for prioritizing data traffic might well be necessary someday, yet one might hope that it would be based on the needs of the transmissions rather than the deal making and caprices of the cable owners. Moreover, personal blogs and other Web pages are increasingly patchworks of media components from various sources. Tiered service would stultify that trend.
That seems like a reasonable analysis, so the natural next step for any Internet-related cause is to get a good website going to help with advocacy. Enter It’s Our Net, supported by everyone from Adobe to Yahoo, and sponsored by Amazon, eBay, Google, InterActiveCorp, Microsoft, and Yahoo! . It’s a simple, effective site combining the latest news, information about how the proposed change would affect the web, and tools to contact your elected officials. We’re also proud to note that the entire site is powered by Movable Type. We don’t like to preach too much, but it’s important enough to take a few minutes to visit the site and help spread the word.
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I especially like the irony of this post giving a "403 Forbidden" error when I originally tried to access it
Yeah, sorry, my bad. :) A little bit of non-MT-related server silliness. Solved now, though.
Hmm, Typekey seems to be on the fritz at the moment, can't sign in.
Anyway, I also think this issue is pretty important. There's no need for tiered service, unless to solve problems as you quoted above.
And good to see a good cause is being powered by MT!