Quickie: Dumb Networks are Smart
The world doesn’t need yet another blogger supporting Net Neutrality, so I won’t explain why I think it’s critically important — instead, I’ll just point to people like Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) who can speak to the topic with infinitely more authority than I. Now, that said, it’s not yet clear to me that the regulations being proposed will have the intended effect. The bottom line for me is that the end-to-end principle of “dumb” networks is one worth fighting for.
(via Lessig, where the discussion on the comments is perhaps more interesting than the original blog posts [as usual])