Our Freedoms in the UK…
Via Curry.com
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DigitalSpy.co.uk reports that the CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett has attacked the principle of Net Neutrality, where ISPs stay hands off on the content they deliver, and not degrade the speed of any content, as “Bollocks”.
The CEO said that Virgin is already in talks with some providers to make their content delivered faster than others. This is a huge issue as was discovered by the BBC earlier this week when ISPs threatened to throttle the iPlayer if the publicly funded corporation didn’t help pay for additional bandwidth costs.
The United States seems to be on a fast track to Net Neutrality, with many politicians, such as Obama repeatedly stating it as an important policy measure, meanwhile in the UK and Canada, ISPs seem to be taking ever greater measures to make sure any such principle can never take hold. Ofcom (the UK’s communications watchdog) has sadly taken a “hands off” approach to the issue.
It can only get worse from here.
Pray.
Gutt Luck…
I started listening to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code (deceptively techy sounding, but highly entertaining) and they played this segment out from a new advert going out soon on national and local radio around the UK… it makes for desturbing listening…
Download the MP3 here.
Scary, huh?
You may recall my plee for the new look minimalist look of “Coca-Cola Classic” in the US to make it over the pond to the UK just over a month ago. Well they must have heard them… check out this beast I picked up at the cafeteria…
Some of you may have noticed the minimalist look creep into the Christmas Coca-Cola branding, though this could be sign, I considered, I assumed it was just for Christmas, looks like I should have taken it seriously though, as we have our authentic British “Coca-Cola” with this epic “new” design, which is great.
Thanks Coke.
P.S. Afterthoughts: Looks a bit boring, doesn’t it?
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