Non-profits are scoffing at AOL's invitation to join its Enhanced Whitelist for free. The solution is not AOL offering a few of us service for free in exchange for our silence - the solution is preserving equal access to the free and open Internet...
Close on the heels of MoveOn.org's petition earlier this week, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), together with media policy group Free Press, will announce on Tuesday a coalition of advocacy groups is uniting to oppose what's been dubbed...
It's because of the ISP's recent Enhanced Whitelist agreement with Goodmail to institute what MoveOn calls an "email tax. MoveOn.org is accusing AOL of threatening "the very existence of online civic participation and the free Internet as we know it.
Adding to the confusion, AOL changed its plans in mid-stream, first announcing that their enhanced whitelist would be discontinued by the end of June, and then backpedaling and saying that was only one of many possibilities.
