Copps Editorial: FCC Threat to the Future of the Internet

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:36:33 -0500
From: degrke () consumer org
Subject: Copps Editorial: FCC Threat to the Future of the Internet
To: dave () farber net, declan () well com

I thought IP/Politech might be interested in Commissioner Copps' editorial
in
Tuesday's San Jose Mercury News.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/7495091.htm

A new battle is brewing at the Federal Communications Commission. It's about
the future of the Internet. Entrenched interests are threatening open
consumer access to the Net and stifling innovation and competition in the
process.

The Internet was designed to defeat government or business control and to
thwart discrimination against users, ideas or technologies. Intelligence and
control were consciously placed at the ends of a non-discriminatory network.
Anyone could access the Internet, with any kind of computer, for any type of
application, and read or say pretty much what they wanted.

This Internet may be dying. At the behest of powerful interests, the FCC is
buying into a warped vision that open networks should be replaced by closed
networks and that the FCC should excuse broadband providers from
longstanding non-discrimination requirements.
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Kenneth DeGraff
Technology, Media & IP

Consumers Union
Publisher of Consumer Reports
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