[governance] Federal Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules...

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

This was one specific activist group I had in mind, not the ALA.

I was pointing out a specific pitfall in most of this noise around NN.

--srs (iPad)

> On 16-Jan-2014, at 9:17, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 1/15/2014 6:50 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> That net neutrality legislation was always in trouble - overbroad and driven by an activist rather than industry aware view of neutrality.
>> 
>> Essentially, a lot of the wording people were pushing for was very likely to make even required and non discriminatory filtering of content such as for spam, viruses or general security illegal 
>> [and in fact network neutrality appeared largely in arguments I remember from a few years back where some civil society groups running mailing lists mismanaged those lists, leading to email being received by users unsolicited and causing their lists to be at least briefly blocked]...
> 
> 
> The American Libraries Association, another "activist's" voice, with mismanaged mailing lists? 
> 
> ALA News
> ALA troubled by court’s net neutrality decision
> 
> http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/ala-troubled-court-s-net-neutrality-decision
> 
> Norbert Klein
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