Pro Net Neutrality: Op-Eds and Editorials

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Net neutrality or Net censorship?

July 24, 2006 - link >>

Caroline Fredrickson, Lobbyist, ACLU, CNET

Dick Armey’s recent column on CNET News.com is long on criticism of the Christian Coalition but woefully short of facts about the Net neutrality debate.

In “Net ignorance of the Christian Coalition,” Armey conveniently fails to mention that Net neutrality was the law on the Internet until 2005. The dramatic expansion and innovation that he lauds existed and was made possible because the law prior to 2005 prohibited Internet service providers and other providers from erecting toll booths on the information superhighway.

Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

May 31, 2006 - link >>

The New York Times

Adam Cohen Editorial Observer column opposes any fee system for World Wide Web that would diminish it as platform on which everyone in world can communicate on equal basis; says telecommunications and cable companies are waging misleading campaign, with slogan ‘hands off the Internet,’ that tries to look like grass-roots effort to protect ‘net neutrality,’ when they are actually trying to stop government from protecting Internet, so they can get their own hands on it

Keeping a Democratic Web

May 02, 2006 - link >>

New York Times

"Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else. Opponents of these plans are supporting Net-neutrality legislation, which would require all Web sites to be treated equally. Net neutrality recently suffered a setback in the House, but there is growing hope that the Senate will take up the cause.

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