{"id":2878,"date":"2009-12-06T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2009-12-06T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T18:10:10","slug":"isp-quarrel-partitions-internet-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"ISP Quarrel Partitions Internet: Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2008\/03\/isp-quarrel-par\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/networkmap_large-tbn.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wired.com has an interesting story about how an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2008\/03\/isp-quarrel-par\/\">ISP Quarrel Partitions Internet<\/a>. Cogent Communications, a US-based ISP shut down all connection with a Swedish ISP, Telia that made it impossible for Cogent customers to reach Telia customers on the Internet and vice-versa. And we thought the Internet was designed to bypass blockage! It turns out certain ISPs can arbitrarily block interconnection when in commercial disputes. They can do this by de-peering to disconnect from another ISP and then packet filtering of those packets that work their way through other channels. <\/p>\n<p>This raises questions about the standard story of the Internet that presents packet-switching as a technology that makes it impossible for the Internet to be censored. As we have discovered under the general rubric of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_neutrality_in_Canada\">net neutrality<\/a>, the ISPs now have the technology to block, slow, and filter packets (and have done so.) Thanks to Nancy for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com has an interesting story about how an ISP Quarrel Partitions Internet. Cogent Communications, a US-based ISP shut down all connection with a Swedish ISP, Telia that made it impossible for Cogent customers to reach Telia customers on the Internet and vice-versa. And we thought the Internet was designed to bypass blockage! It turns out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISP Quarrel Partitions Internet: Wired.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}