Net Neutrality In the News
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Oct 22, 2007
Net Neutrality is Back In Front Jon Norwood, American ChronicleThe Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton reaffirmed her position on internet neutrality by way of her proposed national broadband internet system this month. Stating job growth as one of her priorities, it is her intention to create new jobs in the high-tech fields by encouraging investments in the internet.
Clinton’s plan “Connect America” gives the private sector incentives to do business with non-traditional target markets such as poor urban areas that would have in the past not been cost effective. Through the use of government subsidies these areas would become attractive to businesses.
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Oct 22, 2007
Net Neutrality: The Plot Thickens Rob Pegoraro, Washington PostOn Friday, the Associated Press reported that Comcast blocks one of the most popular file-sharing systems, BitTorrent. In essence, the cable-modem provider jams the usual conversation that occurs between two copies of the BitTorrent software at the start of a file transfer:
Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer—it comes from Comcast. If it were a telephone conversation, it would be like the operator breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of the other: “Sorry, I have to hang up. Goodbye.”
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Sep 18, 2007
Broadband Expansion Replacing Neutrality on Hill, Staff Say Communications DailyNet neutrality isn’t dead, but it’s being discussed in a broader context, Democratic congressional aides said Monday at the Future of Music Policy Summit in Washington. “The sword of Damocles” hangs over Internet service providers in the form of congressional oversight, said Kenneth DeGraff, aide to House Internet Subcommittee Vice Chairman Mike Doyle, D-Pa.
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Senator: Net neutrality push ain’t over yet Anne Broache, CNetWASHINGTON--One of the leading U.S. Senate proponents of Net neutrality laws said Monday that he’s not giving up on enacting the divisive antidiscrimination rules.
To a standing ovation, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) urged attendees at the Future of Music Policy Summit here to “fight back and say this is something that’s important for our country’s interests.”
Led primarily by Democrats, the push to enact a law prohibiting broadband providers from charging content providers extra fees for priority placement or faster delivery failed last year in both chambers of a Republican-controlled Congress. Since then, no significant action has occurred on the legislative front, and recently, both the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice argued no new laws are needed.
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Sep 11, 2007
The Justice Department vs. ‘Net Neutrality’ Ross Kaminsky, Human EventsBetween “Net Neutrality” being an arcane concept, misleadingly named by its supporters, and out of the news for much of 2007, many Americans are unaware of the issue’s importance as well as the fact that the push for “Net Neutrality” may fortunately be dead after the Justice Department released its position on the issue on Thursday.
Those who can define the terms of a debate frequently win it. A good example is the “Progressive” movement, whose definition of progress is essentially to make true as quickly as possible Jefferson’s warning that “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground”. “Net Neutrality” is another such misnomer: Its supporters mean to use government to prevent internet access providers (mostly phone and cable companies) from being able to charge different customers for different types of access, such as higher speeds, highly fault-resistant connections, more bandwidth usage for games, etc.
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