January 9, 2008 :: The Editors :: One Comment
AT&T is proposing the implementation of new filtering technologies “at the network level” that would essentially interrupt in a definitive way the public’s freedom to access online content. The concept known as ‘net neutrality’ refers to consumers and netizens’ ability to freely gain access to any site, paid or unpaid, without major telecommunications companies programming [...]
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August 9, 2007 :: staff :: Comments Off
Journalist Bill Moyers explains how Net Neutrality is really about stipulating for all media regulations an ‘Equality of Access provision’ like that imposed on AT&T after “Free Press and Save the Internet.com orchestrated 800 organizations, a million and a half petitions… a top-shelf communications campaign…”
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August 9, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
THE OPEN INTERNET IS A FORCE FOR DEMOCRACY & OPEN GOV’T, NOW IT IS UNDER THREAT FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO BOTTLENECK THE FREE PRESS The concept of ‘net neutrality’ refers to the current state of affairs in the free democracies of the world, where those who control the physical infrastructure of the Internet are [...]
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July 7, 2007 :: staff :: Comments Off
ADVISORY GROUP IS PART OF EFFORT BY GOOGLE TO ENSURE THAT USERS NOT NEED TO SORT THROUGH RANDOM OR POSSIBLY ERRONEOUS INFORMATION ON SERIOUS MATTERS Google has launched a new special advisory group for health issues. The aim is to improve its overall search technology so that the end-user’s experience is not a confusion of [...]
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January 2, 2006 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
A contract is legally binding only when: all signatories freely and voluntarily agree to its provisions; all provisions are themselves legal; none of the provisions is inherently unreasonable or deceptively worded. Neither contracts nor “terms and conditions” including indemnities disclaimers, can be classified as legislation. They do not make or construct legal limits by themselves.
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