New Washington Post editorial on net neutrality

Professors David Farber and Michael Katz have a new editorial at the Washington Post on net neutrality. They argue many of the things I've been arguing all along, and they lay it out quite clearly.

The Internet needs a makeover. Unfortunately, congressional initiatives aimed at preserving the best of the old Internet threaten to stifle the emergence of the new one. [...]

Network neutrality is supposed to promote continuing Internet innovation by restricting the ability of network owners to give certain traffic priority based on the content or application being carried or on the sender's willingness to pay. The problem is that these restrictions would prohibit practices that could increase the value of the Internet for customers. [...]

Blocking premium pricing in the name of neutrality might have the unintended effect of blocking the premium services from which customers would benefit. No one would propose that the U.S. Postal Service be prohibited from offering Express Mail because a "fast lane" mail service is "undemocratic." Yet some current proposals would do exactly this for Internet services.

Read the whole thing.

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The ever-sensible Cynthia Brumfield has more.

Comments

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Follow the money:
http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=156

It's funny how nearly all the "experts" against net neutrality have some financial connection with the telecoms.

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