[Chapter-delegates] NPR Article 3.7 Million Comments Later, Here's Where Net Neutrality Stands

[John More]

These are all useful contributions.  One strong message that came out of a panel at the IGF USA was the need to get beyond just using “Net Neutrality” as a simplistic slogan and not thinking more global.

John More
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On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> "Timeo Danaos et hot-dog stand analogies of the Internet ferentes" ("I fear the fierce Danaid warriors, especially when they carry hot-dog stand analogies of the Internet."
> 
> Seen from outside the US our fear of a mandated regulatory regime for the Internet that is too similar to the telecommunications regime is no smaller. The effects on content regulation and others may end up being a nightmare. Tying things up forever in US litigation may be another nightmare.
> 
> Outside the US we might also shrug all this off and establish "native" regulations for Network Neutrality. We must act decisively to stop legislation that may be only a bad copy of foreign regulation as well as legislation and other rule-making that does not align with the legal traditions, state of the market and economics in each country. Scott Marcus has done a great job in explaining the differences between Europe and the US in articles and in a video that Joly, with characteristic good aim, shared recently. 
> 
> Let me invite all to read the texts in the Report of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality presented at the IGF, plus the record of the sessions on the subject. The report is in https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4CMvT0NORh9YlRxWjI1ZHhRRlk/edit?pli=1 and contains texts by Vint Cerf, several specialists with widely diverging points of view, and one by myself.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
> wow - this is terrific - clear and compelling.
> 
> although Title II is such a messy tool - I wish we had an Internet title that did not suffer from all the barnacles of the telephone-inspired Title II legislation....
> 
> v
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a thorough explainer, remarkably, from the right.
> 
>  http://www.jamesjheaney.com/2014/09/15/why-free-marketeers-want-to-regulate-the-internet/
> 
> j
> 
> 2014-09-17 16:55 GMT-04:00 Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>:
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/17/349243335/3-7-million-comments-later-heres-where-net-neutrality-stands
> 
> 
> Glenn McKnight
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