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September 12, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Net Neutrality Fans Decry Justice's View
As noted in the "Blog Bits" feature of Technology Daily yesterday morning
Network neutrality advocates this week blasted the Justice Department over a cautionary statement it sent to the FCC about imposing rules to keep high-speed network owners from charging premium access rates to select content providers.
Tim Karr wrote at the blog of Save the Internet that soon-departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales issued the statement to leave a "parting gift" for large telecommunications companies like AT&T that he said would benefit from not having a mandate on network neutrality.
"Net neutrality should be the cornerstone of any national broadband plan," he said. "It frees the types of economic innovation and competition that have been a hallmark of the Internet's development until very recently. Net neutrality guarantees that each of us gets an equal voice and equal choice without meddling from the likes of Gonzales and his friends at Ma Bell."
Declan McCullagh, meanwhile, wrote at The Iconoclast about the "10 things that finally killed net neutrality." The Bush administration topped his list.
And James Gattuso at The Technology Liberation Front criticized Google, an advocate of network neutrality, for posting a video of CEO Eric Schmidt to YouTube that is 55 minutes long. Google owns the video-sharing site, which has rules limiting the length of videos to 10 minutes.
Posted by Danny | 10:35 AM
