[governance] Net Neutrality

[Eric Dierker]

I found it interesting that "search neutral" Google was this up on the issue:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Public+Knowledge+support+of+FCC&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=

--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at datos-personales.org> wrote:


From: Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at datos-personales.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Net Neutrality
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter at npogroups.org, "_Wolfgang=22?=" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 1:07 PM


Parminder:


You are right! 


(old news but pertinent to the discussion)


EPIC has signed on to a letter from Public Knowledge to the Federal Communications Commission supporting the FCC's decision to begin public proceedings on preserving an open internet. EPIC joins many other public interest groups who have also expressed support for the FCC's initiative. The FCC's proceedings will focus on proposed rulemaking policies that would preserve open internet. EPIC favors the general principles of "network neutrality" and has called on the FCC to preserve privacy safeguards against measures that Internet Service Providers may use to limit access to the internet. For more information, see also EPIC Deep Packet Inspection


http://epic.org/2009/10/public-knowledge-epic-other-pu.html





On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Parminder wrote:


Hi All

What is most interesting in the joint statement is this new concept of Technical Advisory Groups. Seeking technicalisation of areas which are legitimately for political governance is an old trick of the dominant interests, which we already have enough of trouble dealing with in IG arena. And now Google is joining in. 

I also read dilution of Google's stand on NN, at least in terms of expectations of laying out NN principles and policies by the government and their strict enforcement. (though one would have to see Google's own separate submission on the subject.)

From the referred joint statement


With respect to traditional Internet access services, the parties agree that differential
treatment of Internet traffic by network operators may be either beneficial or harmful to users.
Particular practices could be acceptable or unacceptable discrimination, depending on their effect
on competition and on users. While we do not necessarily agree on which side of the line
various practices may fall, we do agree that such practices should be evaluated on a case-by-case
basis.

Their is  saying in Hindi - People who live in glass houses do not throw stones at other people's house. Perhaps Google has started to realize the glassiness of its own house.

Parminder 


Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote: 
FYI
Interesting Joint Statement Google & Verizon
 
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6015527661
 
wolfgang
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