{"id":21547,"date":"2014-11-12T18:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=21547"},"modified":"2014-11-12T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:10:37","slug":"net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Wu, who ran a complelling race for Lieutenant Governor in NY and is a professor at Columbia Law School, writes:\u00a0 A neutral network might be designed without legal prodding \u2013 as in the original internet.\u00a0\u00a0 In an ideal world, either competition or enlightened self-interest might drive carriers to design neutral networks.<\/p>\n

The problem now is favoritsim by the carriers to certain subscribers.\u00a0 If there were no favoritism and if the carriers were not allowed to use the information that flowed through the wires, cables and ether, they would have to be subscription based.\u00a0 Companies like Verizon are now.\u00a0 Google of course is not. Europeans are more sensitive to privacy issues than people in the US.\u00a0 NSA and Edward Snowden have made this issue more prominent.<\/p>\n

Preisdent Obama has come out for net neutrality.\u00a0 Under this concept, the internet would be treated like a utility.<\/p>\n

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Tim Wu, who ran a complelling race for Lieutenant Governor in NY and is a professor at Columbia Law School, writes:\u00a0 A neutral network might be designed without legal prodding \u2013 as in the original internet.\u00a0\u00a0 In an ideal world, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,71,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance","category-inequality","category-infrastructure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t