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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Week in tech: two-tiered Internet edition

via Ars Technica by eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman) on 12/11/10

4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offlineThe forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan's hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site's operations.

Did the FCC just bless a capped, two-tier Internet?: Wall Street analysts and ISPs see dollar signs in the FCC's newly announced support for "usage-based pricing" and its openness to "managed services." But Netflix and other Internet innovators are terrified of the coming tollbooths.

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