FTC Abandons Net Neutrality

July 8th, 2007

Via: Crooks and Liars:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to abandon net neutrality and allow telecoms companies to charge websites for access.

The FTC said in a report that, despite popular support for net neutrality, it was minded to let the market sort out the issue.

This means that the organisation will not stand in the way of companies using differential pricing to make sure that some websites can be viewed more quickly than others. The report also counsels against net neutrality legislation.

Research Credit: Sketch at Move Quiet

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One Response to “FTC Abandons Net Neutrality”

  1. Malgwyn says:
    July 9, 2007 at 10:01 am

    I went over to the FTC.gov website and read everything with the words “net neutrality” written in July 2007. I’m not an expert in Bureaucrat speak, but I didn’t find anything that justified panicing quite yet. If you find something that does, please point it out.

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