Pro Net Competition: Op-Eds and Editorials
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ALEC Opposes Internet Regulation in Congressional Stimulus Legislation
January 27, 2009 - link >>Consumer Electronics Net.com
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) voices its serious concerns over provisions in the economic stimulus plans of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to usher in unprecedented government regulation of the Internet. ALEC opposes plans for federal regulators to impose network management standards through conditional spending grants. Any congressional stimulus legislation should reaffirm our system of network freedom that fosters the kind of innovation that a thriving Internet depends on.
Does Europe need net neutrality regulation?
January 15, 2009 - link >>Martin Cave, Computing
The second reading of the European Union’s telecom package in 2009 includes a major bone of contention – network neutrality rules.
Who’s Winning the Battle Over Net Neutrality?
January 01, 2009 - link >>Paul Korzeniowski, E-Commerce Times
The Internet is the greatest technical development of the 20th century, and its open competition model has been the envy of other market sectors. Internet advances are being crushed by monopolistic carriers who are more concerned with censoring content than delivering services to customers. Those disparate statements sum up the positions of the two sides squaring off in an increasingly contentious debate about the Internet’s future
‘Network Neutrality’? Never Mind.
December 22, 2008 - link >>The Wall Street Journal
The late Gilda Radner used to play a character on “Saturday Night Live,” Emily Litella, who delivered agitated commentaries. Partway through, it would become clear that the elderly woman had misunderstood the issue. For example: “What is all this fuss I hear about the Supreme Court decision on a ‘deaf’ penalty? It’s terrible! Deaf people have enough problems as it is!” When the news anchor explained that it was the death penalty, she would shrug, “Oh, that’s very different. Never mind.”
We just had a never-mind moment on the most controversial public-policy issue relating to the Web: network neutrality. The moment built in response to a page-one story in this newspaper last Monday detailing how Google was negotiating with Internet service providers to deliver its more bandwidth-demanding content, such as YouTube videos, more quickly. Google has long backed network neutrality, whose proponents typically argue that all Internet traffic on a network should be delivered at the same speed and reliability.
Network neutrality fails
December 21, 2008 - link >>Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald.com
Some of the heavy hitters on the Internet have had second thoughts and decided that “network neutrality” is not a good idea. Logic and experience might triumph over ideology and special interests after all.
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