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Another Wave of Protest for Net Neutrality

CTOvision

Open Internet advocates have hatched another plan to engage millions of Internet users over the issue of Net Neutrality. The full list of participating websites is found at battleforthenet.com , an advocacy website that fights for “the free and open Internet, with no arbitrary fees or slow lanes for sites that can’t pay.”

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2014 Stevens Honor Award – Grandfather of the Internet, Dr. David J. Farber

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Farber is known as the grandfather of the Internet. Later at University of Delaware, Farber and a team created CS Net and NSF Net connecting universities nationwide for the first time, this technology later formed the physical backbone of today’s Internet. Stevens recognized Farber with an honorary doctorate in 1999.

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FCC Releases New Net Neutrality Rules

CTOvision

Net neutrality became a buzzword in 2014, as many media sources and public figures voiced their opposition to the FCC’s “fast lanes.” The FCC released a report that outlines its new rules, beginning with an acknowledgment of the widespread public engagement in the Net Neutrality debate. By Shannon Perry.

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Comedian’s Comments Crash FCC Comment Page

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The Net Neutrality debate of the Spring has overflown into the Summer. Under the proposed rules, entertainment providers would pay additional fees to Internet service providers to achieve faster data transmission to customers. — The FCC (@FCC) June 2, 2014. — The FCC (@FCC) June 2, 2014. By ShannonPerry.

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dApps Are About Control, Not Blockchains

Phil Windley

This is not how the internet works today. Manifold , a re-creation of SquareTag is a large dApp for the Internet of Things that supports dApplets (is that a thing?) As I wrote in 2014: On the Net today we face a choice between freedom and captivity, independence and dependence. We've done this before. least in theory.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Cloudera Strengthens Hadoop Security with Acquisition of Gazzang: Builds on additional community efforts to deliver end-to-end security offering

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Jun/03/2014. We’re entering a whole new era with the rise of the Industrial Internet and the Internet of Things where there is vastly more data being streamed from billions of devices. Centralizing and accessing that net-new data to unlock its value is therefore a challenge when you consider the security requirements.

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