Pro Net Competition: Op-Eds and Editorials
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“Net neutrality” is stupid
December 16, 2008 - link >>Robin Harris, ZDNet
Today’s net neutrality tempest - Google: are they or aren’t they? - is a marketing mistake with grave public policy implications. The mistake was law professor Tim Wu’s: creating a new label when a perfectly good one is already there.
Why Has Google Demanded a “Fast Lane”?
December 15, 2008 - link >>John C. Dvorak, PCMag.com
Google is asking for trouble. The search giant has suddenly begun to talk about the need for a fast lane for its offerings—opening a hornet’s nest of debate regarding its motives. After all, Google has servers all over the planet sitting on world-class fiber, and we all know it’s one of the most responsive sites online. So what’s this baloney all about, really?
Winds Are Shifting on Net Neutrality
December 15, 2008 - link >>Xchange
Net neutrality always has evoked strong feelings, but feelings can sometimes change. And that’s exactly what seems to be happening. That’s good news in more than one way for the telcos and cablecos that own and operate the nation’s broadband infrastructure.
Gag Me with a Law
October 27, 2008 - link >>Christy Hall Robinson, AEI
In a period of unprecedented access to information, the First Amendment rights of freedom of the press and freedom of speech are in danger, warns A Manifesto for Media Freedom. The rapid development of media types and venues has prompted both new and revived attempts to control them, and in growing numbers policymakers, nonprofits, and pundits are advocating regulation of radio, television, the Internet, and other media.
Brian C. Anderson, editor of City Journal, and Adam D. Thierer, senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, offer a brief and timely defense of the First Amendment. Explaining what different regulatory proposals mean for free speech and freedom of the press, they demand that lawmakers and government officials not interfere with the constitutional rights of American citizens.
Keep the Internet Free
October 23, 2008 - link >>ANDREA RENDA, The Wall Street Journal
As the knowledge-based economy advances, the same infrastructure—the Internet—will be used to make phone calls, watch television, play video games, even access eHealth and eGovernment services. In this environment, it takes many to tango. Competing Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, must ensure both that application and content providers join their platforms, and that users are offered the best possible set of services at the most competitive price.
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