Politics

Access Diversity

There's more to this than meets the eye. The political dynamics are really interesting, and the substance is important as well. [Werblog]

I'm delighted that Yahoo is one of the signatories to this letter to the FCC.

Declan McCullagh writes

Free-market advocates assert that there's no need for the FCC to intervene, saying there has been no evidence of any problems so far, and even if problems arise, consumers tend to choose an Internet provider with fewer restrictions.

"I don't think it's a worry," said Wayne Crews, an analyst at the Cato Institute. "What we have to do is let different business models flourish. What you may find is that some broadband providers want to be closed and others want to be fully open."

The problem here is in the nature of broadband deployments: competition is extremely limited, in some cases non-existent.

(The Media Access Project's overview of the issues is interesting.)

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