Net Neutrality Bill: Saving or Strangling the Internet?

Network neutrality — an issue that created a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill last year — will be on the congressional agenda again in 2007 thanks to Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan. Snowe and Dorgan this week filed the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, designed to ensure network operators treat all Internet content equally. >>> Read more…

FreedomWorks is disappointed that a coalition of liberal Senators has started the 110th Congress with legislation designed to expand government regulation of the Internet. The so- called Internet Freedom Preservation Act is co-sponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and Barack Obama (D-IL) and would include ‘net neutrality‘ mandates. Net neutrality … >>> Read more…

If Linux can thrive in Microsoft’s world without government intervention, maybe municipal networks can too. What regulators missed and how the lesson applies to net neutrality. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.