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发表于 2017-12-8 14:03:08
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2017-12-07: MilkyWay@home, Repealing Net Neutrality Could Affect MilkyWay@home
Hello Everyone,
On December 14th, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to take a vote to remove the Title II classification of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In effect, this will remove the FCC's authority to enforce the doctrine known as net neutrality. Net neutrality is the idea that all traffic on the Internet, regardless of its origin, should be treated equally. This doctrine is responsible for the massive success of the Internet today. It allows any company, institutions, and individuals to host their own websites and web services without the fear of having their web-traffic throttled to accommodate another company, institute or individual who has more money to pay for their traffic to be prioritized. It also prevents ISPs from throttling or being paid to throttle websites for any reason, such as, political, or ideological reasons.
Why is this important for MilkyWay@home? As a research group that survives off of donations from our wonderful volunteers and government grants, we do not have the means to pay for things like paid prioritization, or any other potential ransoms that ISPs may decide to charge in the future to transmit data. This could lead to a decrease in our workunit availability and overall reduction to our abilities to make discoveries. The repeal of net neutrality can also lead to new fees for our volunteers. For example, ISPs will be allowed to sell access to certain websites as part of "bundled" packages. This means to receive workunits from us or any other BOINC project, or visit our websites, you will have to buy into a "bundle" that includes our or other BOINC websites. In our minds, this is not a partisan issue as there is overwhelming support for net neutrality from both parties, (76% of Americans, 81% of Democrats and 73% of Republicans). [1]
If you live in the United States and would like to help protect net neutrality, the best thing you can do is contact your congressmen and senators to let them know how you feel about net neutrality, why it is important to you, and why they risk your vote in future elections if they do nothing to protect it. Additionally, if you would like to help fund larger efforts to prevent the repeal of net neutrality or if you live outside of the United States and would still like to help, consider donating the Electronic Frontier Foundation or the American Civil Liberties Union to allow them to cover the costs of the looming legal battle.
Thank you all for your continued support and I hope for everyone's sake network neutrality can be saved.
The MilkyWay@home Staff
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=4205
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2017.12.07 撤销网络中立会对MilkyWay@home 造成重大影响
大家好
美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）计划于2017年12月14日进行一项投票表决，内容是关于是否撤销网路服务提供商（ISP）的Title II classification 。如果这项投票通过，FCC 在“网络中立”上的权威性将不复存在。“网络中立”指的是一切互联网上的数据流，不论其源头为何，都能受到平等对待。这一理念是互联网能够取得今天这般成就的主要原因之一。它使得任何公司、机构与个体都能够搭建自己的网站，而且不用担心其网站的通信要为其他更有钱的公司、机构与个体让路。同时，这一理念也防止了ISP以任何理由（比如金钱、政治，和意识形态等）对网站的数据进行限流。
这对我们的项目有什么影响？作为一个依靠广大志愿者捐款和政府补助进行工作的研究小组，我们无力支持网络优先权所需的花费，也无力偿付将来ISP可能会对我们征收的通信费用。这一切将会使我们发包的能力受到削弱，从而直接影响我们研究的进展速度。我们的志愿者也会受到此举的影响。如果投票通过，那么ISP将能够把特定网站的访问权包含在“豪华全家桶”中进行出售。这意味着，要想从我们项目，或者其他任何BOINC项目接受任务包、访问项目网站，都需要用户先购买这些网站的访问权限。我们认为这问题无关于党派之争，网络中立的支持者在两党间都占有相当的比例（赞同比例：86%美国人，81%民主党，73%共和党）。
如果你生活在美国，又想为保护网络中立尽一份力，最好的办法就是联系你的国会议员与参议员让他们。。。所以我在这翻译半天合着这文就是给美国公民看的吗！日！不翻了！有毛用！淦！
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