Thursday, June 22, 2006
Tim Berners-Lee on Network Neutrality
Sir Tim writes:
Whole thing here.
If you have not called BOTH of your senators to tell them, "I SUPPORT STRONG NETWORK NEUTRALITY RULES," do it today. Really, today, please.
Yes, regulation to keep the Internet open is regulation. And mostly, the Internet thrives on lack of regulation. But some basic values have to be preserved. For example, the market system depends on the rule that you can't photocopy money. Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.And he concludes:
Let's see whether the United States is capable as acting according to its important values, or whether it is, as so many people are saying, run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations.
Whole thing here.
If you have not called BOTH of your senators to tell them, "I SUPPORT STRONG NETWORK NEUTRALITY RULES," do it today. Really, today, please.
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