Jennifer Veiga - Internet Regulation
Yesterday morning's Rocky Mountain News [July 27, "Speakout: Proposed cable industry rules a Trojan horse"] contained an editorial from State Representative Jennifer Veiga about proposed regulations being considered by the FCC. Her article was a little vague as to the details of the rules she was opposing although her message that they were unnecessary came through loud and clear. From the editorial, "Yet we see this story playing out once again - this time with some members of the high-tech industry trying to sell policymakers a bill of goods that seems magically enticing, but, in reality, will chill technological innovation and choke technology's much needed next phase."
I dug through the archives of Coyote Gulch and ran across this post from Lawrence Lessig on the subject. Lessig comes to a different conclusion on the necessity for the new regulations, "If in fact networks are allowed to decide which applications and content can run on the network, then 'the Internet' is dead. Sure, there will be a network out there -- the cable network, or whatever you want to call it -- but it will no longer be 'the Internet' that Saltzer, Clark and Reed wrote about."
If you'd like to peruse the documents of the Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators, villified by Representative Veiga and championed by Lessig, here's the link.
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