The Illusion of Net Neutrality: Political Alarmism, Regulatory Creep and the Real Threat to Internet Freedom by Bob Zelnick & Eva Zelnick

Author:Bob Zelnick & Eva Zelnick [Zelnick, Bob & Zelnick, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, Political Science, Communication Policy
ISBN: 9780817915964
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Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2013-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

1. In the Matter of Regulatory & Policy Problems Presented by the Interdependence of Computer & Commc’ns Services & Facilities, 7 F.C.C.2d 11, 11 (1966) [hereafter “First Computer Inquiry”].

2. Michael Kende, “The Digital Handshake: Connecting Internet Backbones,” CommLaw Conspectus 11 (2003): 45.

3. See Adam D. Thierer, “Unnatural Monopoly: Critical Moments in the Development of the Bell System Monopoly,” Cato Journal 14 (1994).

4. 47 C.F.R. § 64.702(a) (2012).

5. 47 U.S.C. § 202 (1989).

6. 47 U.S.C. § 201(b) (1938).

7. 47 U.S.C. § 205 (1989).

8. See Nuechterlein, supra note 3 in Chapter 3, at 152; see also Steven Titch, “Google and the Network Neutrality Fallacy,” The Reason Foundation, December 14, 2008, http://reason.org/blog/printer/google-and-the-network-neutral.

9. In re Fed.-State Joint Bd. on Universal Serv., 13 F.C.C.R. 11501, 11531 (1998) [hereafter “Universal Service Report”].

10. See First Computer Inquiry, supra note 1 in this chapter, at ¶18.

11. Committee on Energy and Commerce, Report 112-51, 3, 112th Congress, 1st Session, April 1, 2011.

12. 47 U.S.C. § 230(b)(2) (1998).

13. See Universal Service Report, supra note 9 in this chapter, at 11531.

14. National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, 545 U.S. 967 (2005).

15. See generally Nuechterlein, supra note 3 in Chapter 3, at 128.

16. John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace,” 1996, https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html. Barlow is also a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a libertarian, nonprofit digital-rights advocacy organization, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

17. Remarks of William E. Kennard, chairman Federal Communications Commission, before the National Cable Television Association, Chicago, Illinois, on June 15, 1999.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Remarks by FCC Chairman William E. Kennard before the Federal Communications Bar, Northern California Chapter, San Francisco, California, July 20, 1999.

23. FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell, Address at Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado School of Law, February 8, 2004. See also House of Representatives, Report 112-51, Committee on Energy and Commerce, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt51/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt51.pdf.

24. Bianca Bosker, “Former FCC Chairman Criticizes ‘Religious’ Commitment to Net Neutrality,” Huffington Post, September 8, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/michael-powell-net-neutrality_n_688732.html.

25. Eli Noam identifies seven different “related but distinctive meanings in which the term is used.” They are: “No different quality grades (‘fast lanes’) for internet service; no price discrimination among internet providers; no monopoly price charged to content and applications providers; nothing charged to the providers for transmitting their content; no discrimination on content providers who compete with the carriers’ own content; no selectivity by the carriers over content they transmit; no blocking of the access of users to some websites.” Eli Noam, “A Third Way for Net Neutrality,” FT.com, August 29, 2006, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/acf14410-3776-11db-bc01-0000779e2340.html#axzz1araJiZZt.

26. Tim Wu, “Network Neutrality FAQ,” http://timwu.org/network_neutrality.html.

27. Tim Wu, “Why Have a Telecommunications Law? Anti-Discrimination Norms in Communications,” Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law 5 (2006): 26 (Wu pragmatically writes: “[I]f the goal is to maximize the value of the information networks as a catalyst for commercial, political, and personal activities, it would be useful to speak of the dangers that face the telecommunications regulator”); see also Tim Wu, “The Broadband Debate, A User’s Guide,”

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