Doctorow calls for tying NN to cable franchises
Cory Doctorow, editor of BoingBoing, has a nice write up on Net Neutrality in this week’s InfoWeek (h/t Richard Bennett ).
I’ve given it a quick once over on the train ride this morning and it seems to me that I share a lot of Cory’s point of view.
Cory says about Net Neutrality:
We need to fix this, though, and there may never be a better time to do it. The Bells are hunting at the FCC for the right to compete with cable TV providers. (They have the advantage of having deals in place with all the municipalities and may be able to trounce the cable companies.) They're in the mood to deal, and savvy K Street lobbyists might be able to scuttle the Bells' TV ambitions if they don't back off on the neutrality question.
Sound familiar? That’s pretty much the exact approach I’ve been advocating on this blog for the last couple of months. In my opinion it is a fair approach. Consumers gain added cable competition and guarantees of the internet as a fair and level playing field and the telcos gain cable tv franchises; what could be wrong with that?
