Divergencia Digital

Una de las principales consecuencias del reciente fallo Verizon vs FCC, donde un tribunal de apelación norteamericano consideró que el ente regulador se excedió en sus facultades al exigir el cumplimiento de parámetros propios de neutralidad de red (Open Internet Order), sin dudas ha sido el surgimiento de nuevas estructuras de negocios en la red que hasta hoy en día los operadores no se animaban a lanzar al mercado por temor a que fuesen cuestionados por ser discriminatorios. Pero al dejar de ser Internet una red neutra, los operadores de telecomunicaciones tratarán de replicar aspectos del mercado de televisión por cable en el negocio de Internet, pudiendo otorgar determinados beneficios o trato más favorable respecto a determinados contenidos o aplicaciones. A Internet sin neutralidad de red se la suele ejemplificar a través de situaciones extremas y burdas, como puede ser la lentificación de acceso a aquellas páginas webs que no arriben a un acuerdo con el operador de tele...

Following is the text of President Obama’s speech on National Security Agency data collection programs, as transcribed by the White House. MR. OBAMA: At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee borne out of the “The Sons of Liberty” was established in Boston. And the group’s members included Paul Revere. At night, they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America’s early Patriots. Throughout American history, intelligence has helped secure our country and our freedoms. In the Civil War, Union balloon reconnaissance tracked the size of Confederate armies by counting the number of campfires. In World War II, code-breakers gave us insights into Japanese war plans, and when Patton marched across Europe, intercepted communications helped save the lives of his troops. After the war, the rise of the Iron Curtain and nuclear weapons only increased the need for sustained intelligence gathering. And so...

Nota de Enrique Dans sobre ciertas maniobras que estaría realizando Gmail y que podrían considerarse como afectando la neutralidad de red.

Excelent post from Adam Thierer in the Techliberation blog.

Net Neutrality will be disappearing in the United Sates if FCC decides to reclassify the broadband services as telecommunications and subject to common carriers obligations (Title II 1996 Communication Act). It may be considered as a correction of the mistake incurred in 2002 when it was qualified as information services under the excuse of promoting competition and investments.   If FCC decides to give the ISPs the new status of telecommunication providers, the scope of the obligations and commitments to be imposed to them shall far more stricter than those from net neutrality. Common carrier statutory obligations are imposed for being seen this activity as an utility. The features and characters of these common carriers activities originated in the common law system are quite similar to the "servicios públicos" created by French administrative law and adopted by almost all Latin America. From my first readings in net neutrality I recall the European first criteria ab...

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