Net Neutrality Threatened
Net neutrality is an important principal keeping networks open and ensuring access to a variety of information. Now, politicians are considering ending it in order to favor business. Several movements are working on keeping the Internet open. David Weinberger explains the importance of net neutrality. We librarians should be concerned about the effort to change the nature of the Internet.
Addenda: Tuesday’s lunch discussion at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society will be about net neutrality and feature Berkman Fellow David Isenberg. To attend, please RSVP by noon on Monday, May 1 to rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu. To participate remotely, hop in the berkman channel on freenode.net on IRC and/or tune into the Webcast.
5/1: We’ll talk about net neutrality at Thursday’s blog group.
5/2: BeSpacific reports on defeats for net neutrality in the House.
