Pro Net Neutrality: Op-Eds and Editorials
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Net Neutrality’s not anti-property, it’s about our property
February 03, 2008 - link >>Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
It took 17 rounds, but when the FCC’s $4.638 billion reserve was met late last week, it meant that the FCC’s mandated open access rules would necessarily come into play. Under the proposed rules, 22MHz of the spectrum to be auctioned would be subject to open-access regulations, meaning that the company winning the auction would not be able to control what kind of devices are attached to the network or how the bandwidth is used.
While there were plenty of high-fives around here, not everyone is pleased. Scott Cleland, founder of telecom analyst firm The Precursor Group, is out blasting the developments, saying that open access and “net neutrality” advocates are “antiproperty” according to the IDG News Service. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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.
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