Back in April, I put up some information on the Net Neutrality issue. I’ve done some minor reading on the matter, but not much that has cleared up the issue. From what I could tell, I really could not determine whether I should go with the knee-jerk “don’t touch my Internet!” reaction or the “the telecoms have the right to do that” reaction. Last Saturday, Dr. Paul Cesarini of BGSU was the keynote speaker for the ResNet Conference that was at BGSU. At the end of his talk, someone asked a question which came down to what he thought of the network neutrality issue. His response was that the telecoms were kind of like the mafia. “Google, we not saying that anything will happen to your packets, but we can’t gaurantee that nothing will. If you give us some money, we’ll make sure that nothing will happen to the packets you send out.” A nice, simple explanation in my opinion.
I’ve had Dr. Cesarini as a co-instructor for a class a couple years ago, so I know that he knows his stuff. He has also done work for the EFF, as well as numerous other organizations and groups, including research with DRM. I was leaning towards the point of view that he gave, but because of who he is, what he has done, and his stance on the matter, I feel confident in stepping onto the side of the debate that is against the telecoms in this matter.
Sometimes it helps knowing who is taking what stance before jumping to a conclusion.
Moments after I posted the above, I found Net neutrality has ruined the Web on digg. Enjoy.
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