App Store is a Real Danger to Internet Freedom

19 Jan 2011 | News | TJ on Google+

Wikipedia’s chief Jimmy Wales thinks that the app store model is much more urgent danger to internet freedom than flaws of net neutrality.

According to him, who emphasized immediately he speaks in strictly personal capacity, places such as iTunes can act as a chokepoint that is very dangerous.

Wales mentioned it was time to ask if that model was a threat to a diverse and open ecosystem and stated that we own [a] device, and we should control it.

During Wikipedia’s10th anniversary week in Bristol, England, Wales contended that many of worries about net neutrality were only theoretical and didn’t case an urgent danger.

Though he mentioned the whole case was complicated, and his own sights could be policy wonky (maybe meaning by saying that they won’t thoughtlessly consume a strict principle in spite of this particular issue), he stated some elements of the net neutrality campaign were highly overblown and focused on fears about may occur instead of what is exactly happening.

The main purpose of campaign called Net Neutrality is the creation of neutral Internet where traffic is treated equally.

Its representatives demand removing limitations on sites, content, platforms, the modes of communication and the kinds of equipment that may be attached by Internet service providers (ISPs) and governments.

At the same time, Microsoft has filed a case offending Apple’s right to use its ‘App Store’ brand, reasoning that this term is too “generic”.