Washington Post is Against Net Neutrality
June 19th, 2006 by Brendan SteinhauserThe Washington Post has it right on net neutering.
Check out their piece here.
Here are some excerpts:
“THE SENATE will hold hearings tomorrow on “net neutrality,” the idea that the pipes and wires that form the Internet should treat all content equally… ÂÂ
the big Internet firms — Google, Microsoft, eBay — want their services delivered fast but don’t want the pipe owners to extract fees from them…ÂÂ
If you want innovation on the Internet, you need better pipes: ones that are faster, less susceptible to hackers and spammers, or smarter in ways that nobody has yet thought of…ÂÂ
The weakest aspect of the neutrality case is that the dangers it alleges are speculative. It seems unlikely that broadband providers will degrade Web services that people want and far more likely that they will use non-neutrality to charge for upgrading services that depend on fast and reliable delivery, such as streaming high-definition video or relaying data from heart monitors. If this proves wrong, the government should step in. But it should not burden the Internet with preemptive regulation.”
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