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Vint Cerf and Dave Farber Debate Net Neutrality

Grant Gross writes on InfoWorld:

A net neutrality law isn't needed because the U.S. already has antitrust laws that would keep broadband carriers from acting in an uncompetitive manner, Internet pioneer David Farber said Monday in a debate against TCP/IP co-creator Vinton Cerf.

The two squared off at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., as the U.S Senate prepares to consider a wide-ranging broadband bill. Farber, a computer science and public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said that Congress should not pass a law prohibiting large broadband providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. from block or slowing access to competing Web content.

posted by Fergie @ 7/17/2006 09:28:00 PM