A Canadian site , YellowTimes.org, had to remove content deemed offensive (a photo of an American POW and a photo of a dead Iraqi child) by the company that provides Internet access to their host. [Thanks, Politechbot]
The upstream provider, Level 3 Communications [Hoover’s capsule] of Broomfield Colorado, is a multi-billion-dollar company.
Our communication infrastructure should not be in the hands of a few huge companies who can take the content or nature of our communication into account when deciding what to charge or even whether to allow us to use the Net.
The Impact of Centralized Control over e2e Networks
I see stories such as these, “MediaSavvy: The censor upstream” and I cringe. As long as the “core” of internet infrastructure remains in the hands of the few instead of being as distributed as possible, as was intended, then the internet community will…