Comments on: It's up to Congress now to protect Net Neutrality http://www.ojr.org/its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard Aylmer-Hall http://www.ojr.org/its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality/#comment-936 Richard Aylmer-Hall Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:56:13 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1351#comment-936 If this were to happen in the UK I would hope that the free market would dictate that unrestricted browsing would be a differentiating factor in allowing customers to choose which ISP to use.
Why wouldn’t this happen in the USA?

I have a choice of dozens of ISPs in north Surrey, not just 3 or 4, and I’m pretty sure there would always be a few that offered net neutrality as a distinguising factor/USP if this sort of thing took off here.

]]> By: Sunil Bajpai http://www.ojr.org/its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality/#comment-935 Sunil Bajpai Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:27:02 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1351#comment-935 Bandwidth cost is zero for millions of bloggers. Who pays?

Those who derive economic benefit from the bloggers’ outpourings. They, not legislation or government, would best sustain the “explosion in people-powered media”.

More at http://tinyurl.com/2loaf6

]]> By: Steve Boriss http://www.ojr.org/its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality/#comment-934 Steve Boriss Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:37:18 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1351#comment-934 I respectfully disagree. Completely. Through the entire history of news, whenever governments have been able to get any degree of control over the means of communication, free speech has suffered mightily. When the printing press was invented, governments immediately instituted licensing, prior restraint, and censorship to suppress criticism. When broadcasting was invented, governments immediately either took full ownership of it or required proof of

]]> By: K.Paul Mallasch http://www.ojr.org/its-up-to-congress-now-to-protect-net-neutrality/#comment-933 K.Paul Mallasch Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:41:18 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1351#comment-933 Getting rid of net neutrality is one of the only real ways I see ‘them’ being able to stop the grassroots journalism movement.

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