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Title    Reed Hastings' Case For Strong Net Neutrality
Date    Friday March 21 2014, @08:52PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the play-fair-or-I'll-send-you-all-to-bed dept.
https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/21/2157259

chromas writes:

"Reed Hastings of Netflix writes in his blog:

The essence of net neutrality is that ISPs such as AT&T and Comcast don't restrict, influence or otherwise meddle with the choices consumers make. The traditional form of net neutrality which was recently overturned by a Verizon lawsuit is important, but insufficient.

This weak net neutrality isn't enough to protect an open, competitive Internet; a stronger form of net neutrality is required. Strong net neutrality additionally prevents ISPs from charging a toll for interconnection to services like Netflix, YouTube, or Skype, or intermediaries such as Cogent, Akamai or Level 3, to deliver the services and data requested by ISP residential subscribers. Instead, they must provide sufficient access to their network without charge.

Business Week and Forbes have articles with very slightly contrasted viewpoints."

Links

  1. "chromas" - mailto:chromaesthesia@gmail.com
  2. "his blog" - http://blog.netflix.com/2014/03/internet-tolls-and-case-for-strong-net.html
  3. "Business Week" - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-21/netflix-just-opened-the-door-to-paying-isps-more-access-fees
  4. "Forbes" - http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/03/21/netflix-decides-the-free-market-isnt-so-good-after-all-wants-government-to-step-in/

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