Net Neutrality debate gets traction
I cited a DoJ statement in a previous article that was destined to stagnate or kill all innovation on the web, by permitting ISPs to end the end-to-end nature of the internet.
I’ve been trying to draw the attention of some other technical people by talking about NN on mailing lists. Sadly some people have got the wrong end of the stick – they think that the rule simply states that ISPs will be allowed to carry customer Quality of Service preferences to the edge of their ISP networks. This is not the case – the Net Neutrality debate is about whether an ISP should be permitted to be un-neutral irrespective of, or even against their customers’ wishes.
One company that stands to loose most from an un-neutral net is Google who have been quick to earn column inches supporting the neutral net.
Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research speaks from the front cover of this weeks’ Computing arguing that the only reason “the net has grown far beyond the original perception bounds” was in fact ” because it is open, and because services can be launched without being fettered by higher level control. At Google, we think it is good for competition to try to keep services this way, and that is what we are going to push for.”
I don’t want an internet dominated only by companies with deep pockets. Google, the archetypal company with the deepest pockets don’t even want an internet dominated only by companies with deep pockets. The only parties that stand to gain from the NN war as the ISPs that have been the most aggressive at driving down consumer internet charges, to un-sustainable points. Don’t give them a life line. Let’s have a fair internet.
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