Pro Net Neutrality: Op-Eds and Editorials
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Opinion: Broadband access created by stimulus must uphold open Internet principles
February 12, 2009 - link >>Josh Silverman, The Mercury News
As part of the economic stimulus bill agreed to Wednesday, Congress committed to more than $6 billion for building out high-speed Internet connections in rural and underserved areas. Given the outsize impact that Internet innovation has had on job creation, investment and consumer choice over the last decade, dedicating 1 percent of the stimulus to expand broadband availability is a no-brainer. This relatively small investment is critical to the future of Silicon Valley and the overall competitiveness of our nation.
However, to be truly effective, the broadband build-out must adhere to openness standards designed to protect the innovation for which Silicon Valley is known.
ESPN360 Ushers In Cable-ization Of The Internet
February 07, 2009 - link >>Jason Lee Miller, WebProNews
Only available through specific ISPs.
Imagine a world where you want to watch videos on, say, Hulu.com, but you are unable to because Hulu has an exclusive deal with TimeWarner. If you want Hulu, and a premium package of websites that includes the New York Times, Yahoo, and iTunes, you can only find them on TimeWarner.
Congress should preserve Net Neutrality
December 18, 2008 - link >>San Francisco Chronicle
This week, a media report that Google was reneging on its very public support for “Net Neutrality” set off a firestorm of online criticism. Bloggers, technology experts and Google itself have all taken to the mountaintop, shouting that Google’s deals with Internet access providers, to use “edge caching” technology, don’t violate Net Neutrality principles.
O’Brien: Time to settle net neutrality debate
December 16, 2008 - link >>Chris O’Brien, Mercury News
I had lulled myself into believing we were all but done with this whole debate about net neutrality, the notion that service providers must treat all traffic equally.
Can the FCC fix the Internet?
April 17, 2008 - link >>Seeta Pena Gangadharan and Shinjoung Yeo, The Stanford Daily
When the Federal Communications Commission takes the stage at Dinkelspiel Auditorium for its second hearing on broadband, it’ll be taking a trip down memory lane.
For one, the precise topic of the hearing — what types of control broadband owners have and ought to have over content, applications or technologies that run on broadband infrastructures — is relevant to Stanford history. More than thirty years ago, innovators like Vinton Cerf (now Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist) were likely to be found considering the value of neutrality in the design of ARPANET, one of the precursors to the Internet. It was Cerf who, together with Robert E. Kahn at the University of California-Los Angeles, pioneered the TCP/IP protocol suite. This protocol is the original lingua franca of the Internet, enabling data to travel without discrimination from server to server throughout the Internet until that data reaches its destination.
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