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Telecommunications FCC investigates network neutrality
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 26 March 2007 | |
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Regulators and legislators in other countries should take note of Copps' prediction that without mandated neutrality, "Maybe the Internet entrepreneurs of the future will have to seek permission to innovate from the owner of the broadband pipe." Advocacy group Public Knowledge issued a statement saying "The Commission should recognize that the goal of Net Neutrality is to restore the protections for consumers and content providers that were in effect when the Internet started and which allowed the medium to become what it has today. Simply because telephone and cable companies are on their best behavior today, while the Commission and Congress examine the issue, is no reason to delay action to protect consumers and content providers in the future from the actions of network operators which have said they will split the Internet into a privileged fast lane, and a dirt road for everyone else." The group's communications director Art Brodsky added "The point is that the Net Neutrality/Open Internet/Internet Freedom movement wants to restore protections previously taken away." Public Knowledge is not alone. Josh Silver, executive director of FreePress.net, claimed that without mandated net neutrality, "[Broadband operators'] profits will go from high to astronomical, and they will do what several of their CEO's have admitted in the pages of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek: they will discriminate in favor of the companies and Web sites that pay their added tolls for fast access. They will create a cartel of Internet content providers against which no startup will ever have a chance. They will marginalize the thriving democratic culture of Internet communication and establish their business model as the No. 1 priority for the future of the technology." Now do you believe that net neutrality is important? Or will you wait until your broadband carrier holds sites like iTWire to ransom?{moscomment} |
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