Displaying posts tagged: net-neutrality

ATT and Net Neutrality

2009-12-16 22:29:35 1 Comment
From Ars Technica: Now AT&T Vice President James Cicconi says that's fine, just as long as the final Order "eschews a strict nondiscrimination standard and instead focuses on 'unreasonable and anticompetitive' forms of discrimination that adversely affect consumers." This phrasing is somewhat similar, AT&T notes, to the old 1934 Communications Act common carrier language that banned ...

ATT blocking 4chan and what that means for you

2009-07-27 04:54:14 No Comments
Browsing through Reddit I found a thread about how AT&T supposedly blocked 4chan, a popular imageboard. Here is a link to Encyclopedia Dramatica which has the Reddit link as well as a lot more links related to this topic. Early claims were that AT&T blocked it due to content, as 4chan has a reputation for being ...