Pro Net Neutrality: Op-Eds and Editorials
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Silicon Insider: Go Net Neutrality
November 19, 2007 - link >>Michael S. Malone, ABC News
That does it: I am now a full-fledged convert to net neutrality.
We live in a world with so much noise, so many desperate people calling for our attention and action, that we inevitably put up filters and barriers to keep from being overwhelmed.
Will AT&T and Verizon Kill the Internet?
October 30, 2007 - link >>Daryl Tempesta, Hotdot, WebWire
AT&T and Verizon are reviewing plans to acquire the cornerstone domain group for Internet Legislation
San Jose, California (Hotdot, LLC) – SaveTheInternet, the leading Net Neutrality group, is largely responsible for spearheading the Net Neutrality campaign over the last few years. Net Neutrality is just the first of many issues under the SaveTheInternet umbrella. Due to the enormous reach of the http://www.SaveTheInternet.org group, they feature the following areas: Internet Taxation, Censorship, Net Neutrality, Internet Privacy, Digital Rights Management, Spam, and Open Standards. The SaveTheInternet group has over 500 million Google search results and features more than 850 groups that represent over 100 million people.
Net neutrality? Consider us converted
October 29, 2007 - link >>The Oregonian
In spring last year, when “net neutrality” was a hot topic among technophiles and policy geeks, The Oregonian editorialized against the effort to legislate online digital traffic. “Not so fast on net neutrality,” one of our headlines read.
Consider this a reversal of that position. The clinching argument came from an unlikely quarter: a compelling investigation by The Associated Press into the way Comcast was secretly hobbling some of its Internet customers in order to manage the way data flowed through its part of the network.
The AP found that Comcast was surreptitiously “shaping” Internet traffic by bombarding its own network servers with commands that appeared to come from customers’ computers. The company’s practice was to put the brakes on high-bandwidth customers—the one who routinely upload and download massive files, such as movies, music or software programs—in order to preserve capacity for other customers. It’s a reasonable goal, but the company’s practice of doing it secretly while pretending to offer equal access to each high-speed customer is offensive and wrong.
The Point of Net Neutrality
September 29, 2007 - link >>Timothy Karr, Washington Post
In his Sept. 9 commentary “Whiny Techies, II” [Sunday Briefing, Business] Steven Pearlstein called net neutrality supporters economically illiterate for demanding that consumers “be able to pay the same monthly fee for using the Internet, no matter how much bandwidth they use.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. Supporters of net neutrality aren’t asking that users pay one fee for all grades of access. We want a truly competitive marketplace where people can choose from numerous broadband companies offering access at different speeds and costs.
Free the Internet …
September 13, 2007 - link >>Seattle Times
Democracy is meaningless without structure. It requires support and infrastructure to become a word capable of giving entire nations voice and freedom.
The architects of America’s democracy knew this. The Founding Fathers made sure newspapers and magazines were widely distributed by allowing periodicals to utilize low postage rates. Technologies like the airwaves, which were enshrined as the public’s ownership, have also been federally regulated to be used as democratic tools. Lawmakers have another opportunity to use technology to bring the nation’s democratic discussion to more people. The Internet has become home to modern-day pamphleteers, community discussion and innovation. Like any valuable resource, the Internet is in need of protection.
The Federal Communications Commission and Congress can provide this by passing an Internet-neutrality law. Congress can act this fall on a net-neutrality bill sponsored by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., that is before the Commerce Committee.
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