As the F.C.C. weighs its decision on Net Neutrality, the award-winning director talks to us about the evolution of digital advocacy, and capturing a generation’s grassroots movement on film.
Posts Tagged: Open Internet
Filmmakers, activists, and journalists meet at BitTorrent HQ to discuss the state of human rights online.
At BitTorrent, we’ve been a central figure in the defense of an open Internet from the earliest moments of the Net Neutrality debate. We’ve always taken a strong stance and firmly believe an open Internet is worth fighting for. We helped solve the issue for the ISPs during the first round of this argument with…
BitTorrent’s Chief Content Officer, Matt Mason, calls to Hollywood to help defend an open Internet There’s a lot of confusion in Hollywood about what the proposed FCC Net Neutrality rules mean, and what they will mean for the entertainment industry. Net Neutrality essentially means an open Internet where all traffic is equal, anyone can publish…
The FCC’s new proposal for Net Neutrality rules include effectively abolishing it: proposing preferential treatment for certain traffic. In the wake of February’s Netflix and Comcast deal, it becomes obvious that only companies willing to pay for access have traffic worthy of preferential treatment. The open Internet has been paywalled shut.