What is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. NetCompetition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a government-run Internet. Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.

How Can Craigslist Not Be Neutral or Open, But Support Net Neutrality & an Open Internet?

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:04:43 +0000 Craig Newmark of Craigslist, a leading net neutrality proponent, posted another strong support of net neutrality on Huffington Post where he shared Consumer Reports definition of net neutrality. In another tech elite case of “Do as I say, not as I do,” it is particularly ironic that Mr. Newmark is publicly championing how important it [...]

Clueless Goobris

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:07:29 +0000 Google is a munificent Internet ruler to allow a “handful” of “clueful” people to work outside of Google. IDG reports in the article “Google resists in hiring some industry stars” that: “Google holds back from hiring some people it believes are doing good work because it’s better for the Internet industry not to concentrate too much [...]

Googleopoly Snuffs Out StudioBriefing.net

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:20:03 +0000 Add StudioBriefing.net to the list of companies like TradeComet and Foundem that have been snuffed out by Google’s arbitrary exercise of its search advertising monopoly power to pick what Internet content lives or dies. In an 11-28-09 letter to its readers, StudioBriefing.net, the blog arm of “the longest-running entertainment-industry publication on the Web,” had “no [...]

NCTA’s A+ Initiative Puts Focus on Broadband Adoption

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:53:06 +0000 Kudos to the NCTA for putting the universal broadband focus where it should be — on broadband adoption, and especially adoption where it can have immediate and maximum impact, i.e. helping “middle-school-aged children in low-income households that do not currently receive broadband service” have the “opportunity to become digital citizens of the 21st century.” The [...]

Critical Gaps in FCC’s Proposed Open Internet Regulations

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:29:42 +0000 Like the FCC’s National Broadband Plan task force identified seven critical gaps in the path to the future of universal broadband, the FCC should resolve six identified “critical gaps” in the FCC’s proposed Open Internet regulations before moving forward to regulate the Internet for the first time — by dictating Internet access pricing, terms and [...]

Google is Now the Only Repeat Net Neutrality Offender

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:03 +0000 Google is now blocking the Internet content of users’ choice in two different Google services, meaning that Google has assumed the mantle as the Internet’s only net neutrality repeat offender. Google’s non-neutral behavior pattern indicates that they are confident that they don’t need to respect net neutrality because the FCC will exempt Google from any [...]

Kudos to ACI for its new book on “The Consequences of Net Neutrality Regulations”

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:11:35 +0000 I commend The American Consumer Institute for their excellent new book of scholar essays, “The Consequences of Net Neutrality Regulations on Broadband Investment and Consumer Welfare.” It’s refreshing and very useful to have a bipartisan collection of of 13 essays authored by 11 senior economists and public policy experts, both Republican and Democrat. “The book provides [...]

Google The Totalitarian?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:46:20 +0000 Connecting the dots of several recent important developments, Google increasingly is acting autocratically like it has unlimited power and is answerable to no one. More and more it appears to operate like a centralized, sovereign, virtual-State exercising control over the world’s information, info-commerce and Internet users. Consider these several Google public actions over just the [...]

Google’s Bots: Judge, Jury & Executioner?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:21:53 +0000 Per Advertising Age, Google has now deputized its crawler-bots to be judge, jury, and executioner when it finds a suspected ad scammer; “It’s now guilty until proven innocent, a fundamental shift for ‘Don’t be evil’ Google.” “Google now has a harsh new penalty for advertisers placing scam and malware ads: a lifetime ban.” I have [...]

Debunking the Rewrite of Internet Privatization History

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:04:19 +0000 To help the neutralism movement de-privatize the Internet and transform broadband providers into quasi-public-utilities, some attempt to rewrite the long and very bipartisan history of Internet privatization as a partisan history, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. One example of some rewriting of the Internet’s bi-partisan privatization history was in today’s Wall Street Journal article: [...]