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Speaking before the Media Institute in Virginia on Tuesday, the leading voice of the cable industry challenged the idea that net neutrality regulations enhance free speech. Quite the contrary, warned Kyle McSlarrow, CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, "the First Amendment is framed as a shield for citizens, not a sword for government."
Big Cable: Net neutrality violates ISP 1st Amendment rights
Network neutrality: A tangled web | The Economist
FOR a subject that arouses such strong passions, “network neutrality” is fiendishly difficult to pin down. Ask five geeks and you may well be given six definitions of it. The basic concept sounds simple enough: that the internet’s pipes should show no favours and blindly deliver packets of data from one place to another regardless of their origin, destination or contents.
Verizon dropped a bomb on the FCC's net neutrality plans today, asking a federal appeals court to "vacate, enjoin, and set aside" the signature accomplishment of FCC Chair Julius Genachowski.