Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM ET
Earlier this week, Vint Cerf, one of the original architects of the Internet and our Chief Internet Evangelist, joined other pioneers in a letter to the FCC expressing support for the Commission's consideration of safeguards that would preserve the open Internet.
Vint spoke with Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post about the letter and why an open Internet is needed to ensure innovation and growth on the Web:
"The issue is nondiscrimination against applications and against consumer choice. That should be clear by the letter from my colleagues, and by others, that the fundamental concern is that the provider of broadband service not be able to take advantage of that to act in an anticompetitive fashion against others that are trying to provide competitive applications using the same broadband facilities."
Check out the rest of his conversation with Cecilia on her new blog, Post Tech.
1 comments:
So how exactly does increased government regulation improve internet freedom? Isn't this the same FCC that had (and does) consider having a 'fairness doctrine' for talk radio?
Does anyone have any actual examples of the evil ISP's blocking websites, and is that enough to warrant government control?
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