What is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. NetCompetition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a government-run Internet. Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.

Does FCC want broadband competition to succeed?

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:35:30 +0000   Is the market, or the FCC, the problem in “timely and reasonable” broadband deployment? The FCC’s just released 706 broadband report, like the wireless competition report that preceded it in May, again indicts the broadband industry for not meeting the FCC’s new arbitrary, subjective, and after-the-fact expectations of where the nation should be at [...]

37 States now investigating Google StreetView snooping

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:22:28 +0000 37 States are now involved in a “powerful multi-state investigation” of “Google’s Streetview snooping” per a press release from investigation leader, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who released a new follow-up letter to Google asking for more information and clarification of its representations to date. The letter shows the investigation is very serious. Its prosecutorial [...]

FCC 706 Report: U.S. Broadband Cup is 5% Empty — NetCompetition.org Press Release

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:21:31 +0000   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July, 20 2010 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407     FCC 706 Report: U.S. Broadband Cup is 5% Empty FCC’s criticism misplaced; broadband industry has over not under achieved     WASHINGTON – Scott Cleland, Chairman of Netcompetition.org, released the following statement regarding the FCC’s unprecedented 706 Report conclusion that broadband deployment [...]

Google Fiber Lottery Preying on Distressed Communities

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:20:20 +0000 The Google Fiber for Communities pledge to offer one or more U.S. communities ultra-fast Internet access at one gigabit speeds, is Google’s latest stealth manipulation of the public. In essence, Google’s fiber effort is a cynical national lottery that will result in just one or a few big winners and leave everyone else losers, with [...]

Google and the Internet Bed it Made — Contortions of Justifying a Google Exemption From Principles

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:04:18 +0000 Google strongly legitimized the problem of “search neutrality” in arguing in detail in an FT op-ed today why Google’s search should not be neutral. The essence of Google’s search neutrality problem is that they are imploring everyone to do what they say, but not what they do. (And Google does have a very big problem [...]

Skype’s Net Neutrality Infidelity Scandal

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:17:27 +0000 Skype, one of the high priests of the net neutrality movement, that preaches for Title II monopoly regulation of all the broadband providers it already rides upon for free, has been caught in the act of being blatantly unfaithful to its widely-professed net neutrality principles, by blocking interconnectivity to Fring! Arstechnica and The Hill have [...]

Must Read Thierer Op-ed: America’s Chavez Fan Club

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:53 +0000 Anyone that cares about freedom generally, and freedom of the press in particular, must read PFF Adam Theirer’s outstanding Big Government expose/op-ed putting the spotlight on neo-marxist “FreePress:” “How America’s Hugo Chavez Fan Club Plans to ‘Reform’ the Media Marketplace.” Adam’s analysis and case are brilliant and dead-on; FreePress has one of the most destructive [...]

Google has “human raters” in its search “algorithm”

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:30:54 +0000 Today Google publicly admitted for the first time that its purported “neutral” and “unbiased” search algorithm is not completely-automated or computer-algorithmic like Google has long and consistently represented to the public. In a stunning first-time disclosure in a Richard Waters FT article by “the Google engineer responsible for its ranking algorithm,” Mr. Amit Singhal: “Google’s [...]

Read Eisenach’s great op-ed on net neutrality

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:14:23 +0000 For those who appreciate clarity of thought, please don’t miss Dr. Jeff Eisenach’s great op-ed in the Daily Caller: “Don’t drag broadband into the net neutrality morass.” Mr. Eisenach is right to spotlight and give credit to Clinton Administration FCC Chairman Bill Kennard’s wisdom to allow broadband competition a chance to flourish by not saddling [...]

FCC Respect for Process: What’s wrong with this picture?

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:50:04 +0000 For an FCC that so assiduously respected the integrity of process to produce a consensus National Broadband Plan just a few short months ago, how could this same FCC come to abuse the integrity of process in its pursuit of Title II net neutrality authority, just a few months later? What’s wrong with this picture? [...]