[governance] Re: spam policy (was: "Net Neutrality ...)

[Vittorio Bertola]

Lee McKnight ha scritto:
> I am not attacking anyone, I am critiquing the twisted 'concept' of
> network neutrality, which was planted in the policy discourse by Google
> lobbyists, 

Perhaps that's the common perception in the US, but to me, network 
neutrality is to be a much wider concept, that embraces the necessary 
decoupling between the different roles in the chain of providing the 
various pieces of a communication. Sure it goes to the advantage of 
Google (the company) when applied to ISPs, but it should also go to 
their disadvantage when we realize that ubiquitous content distribution 
platforms such as Google (the search engine) and Youtube should be 
subject to similar constraints.

In the end, network neutrality is simply another form of antitrust 
enforcement, drawing its roots in the "browser war" of the mid 90's, 
when Microsoft exploited its control power on the operating system 
platform (the "carrier") to discriminate in favour of its own browser at 
the application level (the "content" carried by the operating system).

> As I said in another note, I prefer 'universal, open, flexible access'
> as a global policy principle. 

But are the two exclusive? I don't think so. I don't think that there 
will be just one principle, there will be many of them.
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