Breaking Down The Network Neutrality Debate

BREAKING DOWN THE NETWORK NEUTRALITY DEBATE
[SOURCE: internetnews.com, AUTHOR: Roy Mark]
In the inflamed rhetoric of network neutrality, the debates are often cast as broadband providers versus content providers, big companies versus even larger companies and regulation of the Internet versus non-regulation. For Rep. Rick Boucher, these arguments oversimplify the issue. Speaking at the Third Annual State of the Internet Conference Wednesday, the Virginia Democrat told a packed Capitol Hill hotel meeting room, "We can't advance content innovation at the expense of network innovation. We need both kinds of innovation." The conference, sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus, brought together policy makers, think-tank mavens, academics and Capitol Hill staffers for a one-day conference on technology issues facing the new 110th Congress. The top issue: network neutrality. "It is a large, unresolved debate," said Boucher, who supported a defeated network neutrality amendment to a telecom reform bill approved by the House of Representatives last year. "The Internet must remain open and accessible to all, but we don't want to hobble innovation within the network."
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