As some of you may know, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has put a “hold” on a telecommunications bill that, if passed, would allow Internet providers to discriminate with respect to the content they provide to consumers (see here). Similarly, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has launched his own “Fight to Save the Internet” (see here).
For more on the issue of “net neutrality” and the Bush Administration’s attempts to do away with it, see this recent editorial in The New Republic.
This isn’t the sexiest story in the news these days, but it’s an important one with far-reaching ramifications for the Internet as we know it.
We as consumers will suffer. We as citizens will suffer.
My own extended take, a defence of net neutrality, is here.