Staying Neutral

April 22nd, 2008 by Peter Suderman

The Senate held a hearing on net neutrality this morning, and I’ll have more to say on the subject soon, but for now, here’s Dick Armey’s piece on the issue in this morning’s Washington Times:

The Internet is the result of significant competition, innovation and investment. As companies offer new services through the Internet, such as on-demand movies, telemedicine and online classrooms, they will eat up increasing amounts of bandwidth. Net neutrality legislation would prohibit broadband providers from offering premium service to these high-bandwidth content providers for an added fee.

Whole thing here.

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