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The following are the latest developments in the realm of proposed legislation in the "net neutrality" issue...
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The net neutrality debate comes down to this: content providers and aggregators want to regulate the Internet so that service providers cannot charge for different levels of service among their customers. The proposed rules would be akin to regulating that there cannot be carpool lanes on a highway. Broadband service providers who build the networks believe they should be able to manage the networks for efficiency, security and quality of service. Broadband providers believe they should be able to place intelligence in the core of their network as well as the edge, or the part that reaches consumers. The debates between these two camps centers on whether Congress should step in to create such regulation. It should not. San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the US Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing internet content, while allowing providers to separate out part of their networks for specialised products. PC Advisor - London,UK
... By Joshua Frank. If you haven't been following this big story about the future of Net Neutrality, I'll try to lay it out as simply as I can. ... Palestine Chronicle - Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA
George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the Craigslist/Net neutrality rug is amounting to a story that's stranger than fiction. To the extent that it's disturbing, it is indeed strange. But, from my point of view, it's business as usual. In case you've been missing the action, here are some bullet points to catch you up ZDNet - USA
subscribers to Cox Communications' broadband service encountered trouble surfing the Craigslist online classifieds site. When advocates of Net neutrality--that is, the idea that all Web traffic should be treated equally--caught wind of the problem, some hastily insinuated that the Atlanta-based cable company was blocking access to advance its own interests. CNET News.com - San Francisco, CA, USA
In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the US Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals Computerworld - USA
Saying that proposed changes to the telecom bill currently working its way through the U.S. Senate will hurt consumers, the American Consumer Institute has announced that it's pressing senators to leave any regulatory provisions out of their legislation. Darby presented his study by pointing out that net neutrality has lost any meaning because the term has been hijacked by a number of competing interests, some of which have opposite points of view. Publish - Topsfield, MA, USA
A new iMedia columnist provides the background for and impact of the House of Representative's defeat of Net Neutrality legislation. iMedia Connection - Dana Point, CA, USA
... "The new draft's provisions on net neutrality utterly fail to protect consumers and preserve an open Internet," Inouye said in a statement. ... InternetNews.com - USA
... Less than two weeks after hopes were dashed that the House of Representatives would include strong net neutrality language in a telecom bill, backers of the ... TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
... to bar broadband internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from charging them to guarantee access and service quality, often called network neutrality ... iT News - Australia
... The outcome that net neutrality is supposed to be opposing, is that in which an ISP goes after service companies which are not its customers, threatening to ... RedState - Mclean, VA, USA
... On the net neutrality front of which I spoke last week, things are also heating up, with a modest breakthrough in the ongoing fight in the US Senate. ... Napa Valley Register - Napa, CA, USA
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