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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/15/2014 6:50 PM, Suresh
Ramasubramanian wrote:<br>
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<div>That net neutrality legislation was always in trouble -
overbroad and driven by an activist rather than industry aware
view of neutrality.</div>
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<div>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 </div>
<div>[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]...<br>
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The American Libraries Association, another "activist's" voice, with
mismanaged mailing lists? <br>
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<blockquote>ALA News<br>
ALA troubled by court’s net neutrality decision<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/ala-troubled-court-s-net-neutrality-decision">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/ala-troubled-court-s-net-neutrality-decision</a><br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
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