The internet is over in the UK

In the US, Barack Obama is committed to introducing net neutrality laws, having said on the campaign trail: "I think [charging for guaranteed service] destroys one of the best things about the internet - which is that there is this incredible equality there."

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In the UK, net neutrality was stillborn as an issue, but Carter was happy today to give its corpse a kick. As well as advocating tiered content delivery, he backed "traffic management"; the somewhat euphemistic industry term for BitTorrent throttling.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/carter_net_neut/



http://chrismarsden.blogspot.com/2009/01/digital-britain-according-to-stephen.html
http://chrismarsden.blogspot.com/2009/01/green-light-for-uk-isps-to-discriminate.html

http://www.techchuck.com/2009/01/29/carter-pledges-file-sharing-snoop-laws/