Ars Technica

We decided to get a second opinion from Wendy Seltzer. Seltzer is a former EFF attorney who created Chilling Effects, a clearinghouse for copyright takedown notices. She is currently a scholar at Yale law school. SOPA's critics have warned that the ...

... They've published the global results of the Glasnost test, an application deployed by MLab that allows broadband subscribers to detect traffic shaping on their account. ...

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The exchange is recorded in Steve Coll's classic account, Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T. By then, on top of the capital contribution demand, AT&T had also strategically dropped its long distance/local "Hi/Lo" service prices for customers ...

Friday's subcommittee discussion about the draft will include representatives from CTIA - The Wireless Association, The National Association of Broadcasters, the police department of San Jose, California, and the New America Foundation.

... "We think that with a few vital improvements, the map could easily become an exemplar of government data transparency as well as an incredibly useful tool for US residents and policymakers," write Benjamin Lennett and Sascha Meinrath on Slate. "But without these improvements, the National Broadband Map runs the risk of becoming a $350 million boondoggle—a map to nowhere filled with inaccurate and useless information." ...

Schmidt's comments echoed an argument advanced by author Evgeny Morozov, who pointed out that internet technologies can be used for repressive purposes by anti-democratic states. Turning to the exploding market for internet services, Schmidt said that ...

... The tool relies on users from around the country running tests in which the user's computer transmits data at a constant bit rate, while ShaperProbe's 48 Linux-based server instances watch incoming traffic to see if that rate degrades in predictable ways over time. Using the M-Lab infrastructure, ShaperProbe has collected more than 1 million trial runs from 5,700 ISPs over the last two years (run your own test). ...

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But the Journal's view is that modest data caps are good for the 'Net—and groups like Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation, who worry about caps, are engaged in "heavy breathing." So long as caps are modest, they won't affect most consumers ...

New America Foundation and Public Knowledge say in a letter (PDF) that data caps aren't necessarily a problem, but that they do “carry the omnipresent temptation to act in anticompetitive monopolistic ways.” AT&T's Unlike competitors whose caps appear ...

... "would further empower an already dominant wireless carrier to leverage its control over devices, backhaul, and consumers in ways that stifle competition," warn Free Press, Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation, the Media Access Project, ...