While I still think it’s an overreaction, an interesting addition to the fray recently as the House of Reps voted 34-22 in favor of the giant telecommuncation companies.
I said before that it’s most likely a storm in a teacup but it can’t hurt to take action.
Gotta love anything that annoys Rupert Murdoch. Apparently Rupes is dirty at BBC’s plans to take their digital empire to the next level, creating a truly interactive user experience. Naturally it has rival broadcasters hopping mad as it uses public money. Meanwhile they’ve been dabbling with the possibility of advertising to users outside the UK.
As one of the most popular websites in the world, I look to the BBC as an unbiased information source (as opposed to some of the more opinionated Murdoch run sources). I have no problem with advertising on the site if it means I get to keep my BBC.
It always baffles a person like me as to how these things become issues. Net neutrality (or Network Neutrality as it is often referred) offers equal access to all users. It prohibits network and telecommunication giants from interfering or altering traffic on the Internet. The issue is that large telecommunication companies have been lobbying Congress to give them greater control over what their users can watch or read etc. because they are the ones who own and maintain the infrastructure.
My own thinking is that this seems like such a far-fetched notion and there’s is so many big names out there to prevent against this thing (Google, Yahoo! and microsoft). That said, I’m backing the folks at MoveOn.org to preserve net neutrality.
I jumped on the new IE7 Beta when it first came out with few problems but lately, have been having significant issues with it and as a result haven’t used it for a while, instead turning to Opera and Firefox. While a long time user and fan of Firefox, I have very quickly become a fan of Opera (a browser I hadn’t used before). Today we interviewed Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera and I came away from it a bigger fan. Even with talks about Business Plans and Partners the message we got was clear, they’re all about making the best browser in the marketplace. Keep a geek eye out for it in the next episode of Best Damn Tech Show, Period.
In the meantime, it seems that Microsoft will be rolling out the next Beta (number 2 I believe) for IE7 on Tuesday which will apparently fix these issues. Many are none too excited about IE at all.
