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It's not just Facebook and Google. "The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
It's not just Facebook and Google. "The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
So what big name internet companies aren't a part of this? I notice there's no microsoft, anybody else?
It's not just Facebook and Google. "The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
So what big name internet companies aren't a part of this? I notice there's no microsoft, anybody else?
There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens (an international asociation), not by companies with varying degrees of interests. Still, it's better than nothing (no godaddy in the association, I see!). I do believe Google mostly fights for a free, uncensored web, though once a conflict arises, between shareholders and freedom, as with any company, shareholders always win.
I tried to look up the privacy platform page, but got a
502 Bad Gateway
error just now. They evidently still have both reliability and usability issues to fix on the association's own website before they go out to make the world a better place.
AFTER EDIT:
Oh, okay, when I go to the Protecting Internet Freedom page
http://internetassociation.org/policy-platform/protecting-in...
I see a statement that the association supports
"policies that protect and promote Internet freedom – information should flow freely across national borders, uninhibited by tariffs, regulations and government censorship that are fundamentally inconsistent with the transnational, free and decentralized nature of the Internet. To preserve the Internet’s role as a conduit for free expression, Internet intermediaries must not be held liable for the speech and activity of Internet users."
Opposing censorship is one of my causes, so so far, so good.
It's not just Facebook and Google. "The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
So what big name internet companies aren't a part of this? I notice there's no microsoft, anybody else?
It would be refreshing if this industry group took a firm stand against the Great Firewall of China and other national government efforts to censor the Internet. I wonder if that is part of their agenda, as is implied by the main page headings? I tried to look up the privacy platform page, but got a 502 Bad Gateway error just now. They evidently still have both reliability and usability issues to fix on the associati…
Funny that they qualify it as government censorship. Because everyone knows that Facebook will censor the crap out of anything they find objectionable. Just a week ago they banned a cartoon of Adam and Eve because it contained nipples. http://tinyurl.com/d5tqnhk
It would be refreshing if this industry group took a firm stand against the Great Firewall of China and other national government efforts to censor the Internet. I wonder if that is part of their agenda, as is implied by the main page headings? I tried to look up the privacy platform page, but got a 502 Bad Gateway error just now. They evidently still have both reliability and usability issues to fix on the associati…
This website is hard to look at. It feels like someone was just throwing cool features together without any sort of continuity. http://internetassociation.org/
Those random little dots floating around make it difficult to read the text.
Also from a design perspective they are really bad. You want people to be reading the text, not focusing on the dots.