2014 is already shaping up as a defining year for digital rights. In the last two years, we’ve moved from one-off displays of grassroots power to more sustained bottom-up activism.
This week David Raphael stumbled on the reality of an Internet without Net Neutrality.
Raphael today alleged that Verizon is deliberately slowing down traffic coming from his company’s servers.
AT&T just filed a patent that would help it define which Internet traffic is “permissible” and “non-permissible” on its network. This is exactly the scenario that supporters of Net Neutrality (read: everyone but the Internet service providers and their friends in Congress) have feared.
Amazing! On Thursday, Free Press led a coalition of organizations — including the ACLU, Avaaz, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, CREDO, DailyKos, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, the Harry Potter Alliance, MoveOn, RootsAction and the Sierra Club — that delivered more than 1 million petitions to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to restore Net Neutrality.
This week’s Net Neutrality-killing court decision has dark ramifications for the future of the Internet. But one thing is missing from the conversation: privacy.
To say that 2013 was just another year in the struggle to protect our online rights is quite the understatement. When the history of the Internet is written, 2013 will be considered one epic year.
Nearly half a billion people use Gmail. Facebook boasts more than a billion users. Want to host documents in the cloud? Dropbox has you covered. Photos? Ditto for Flickr (which Yahoo owns) and Google.