Two tech bits …
- Wireless Carriers Set Strict Decency Standards for Content
- Verizon, for example, bans profanity, excessive skin-showing, and derogatory references to Verizon itself. If you have trouble reaching the article via the link above, try searching with Google News.
- Save the Internet
- Alternet.org gives a helpful overview of the “net neutrality” debate. Information about why net neutrality is a good thing is available from SaveTheInternet.com.
… And three non-tech stories from the New York Times:
- Atlantic City May Lose in a New Monopoly
- Hasbro plans a new version of Monopoly with higher rents and presumably another city — and it won’t be Atlantic City. *Sigh.* Why mess with a classic?
- She Who Controls Her Body Can Upset Her Countrymen
- A Brazilian blogger-turned-sex author has set the country into a bit of a tizzy about sex, women and power.
- New York Killers, and Those Killed, by Numbers
- The New York Times analysed the records of every murder in New York City in the last three years. The result: an overview of who kills and why. Broad trends: violence was overwhelmingly committed by men against men, and the race of the victim and perpetrator was the same in over 75% of cases.
Interesting choice of the two tech articles. I think that if Verizon had its way then the internet would look a lot like their Wireless network; that is with them in full control. You can’t buy a song from Apple using Verizon Wireless, they control your access. I think that is the model that these Tiered Internet plans are striving to become.
BTW - As long as you are promoting the save the internet petition please allow me to say that you can make Net Neutrality a local issue as well. Find out if AT&T or Verizon have applied to operate a new cable TV franchise in your town or neighboring towns. Then ask your local gov officials to make the telco address the issue of Net Neutrality prior to granting them a cable TV franchise.
– Tom