Is a "neutral" net anticompetitive?

The "net neutrality" debate is a complicated one (witness Google's recent twists and turns). Take the very important issue of competition. On the surface, it would seem that those in favor of making net neutrality the law of the land are fighting the good pro-competition fight. By preventing telcos, cable operators, and other pipe owners from giving favorable treatment to certain forms of data - allowing, say, video from TV studios to flow faster than ... Full Story »

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Paul-André Raymond
2.5
by Paul-André Raymond - Oct. 1, 2008

This Story makes the argument that net neutrality is not an easy concept. In particular, disallowing a fast lane may not make the network neutral. Their argument is that infrastructure like cache can provide a significant performance advantage to some. This view is interesting, but the author failed to explain the full concept of net-neutrality and he is addressing only a small part of it as if it was the whole problem. For instance, he seems to think only of the backbone of the internet, when a lot of the problems are in the access.

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