For today's edition of the NPR News program "Day to Day," I filed a report on the debate over network neutrality. Advocates are urging congress to pass an amendment (PDF Link) that would prohibit broadband network operators from prioritizing certain types of traffic from certain providers — for instance, streaming video from a business partner — over others. Net Neutrality proponents say that would be bad for innovation and a diversity of online voices, and could end the open nature of the public internet. But telecom and cable companies argue that they, not government, should be free to decide how to manage the networks they paid to build.
Link to archived audio, voices in this piece include Congressman Edward Markey, who introduced the "Network Neutrality Act of 2006"; Google's Washington Policy Counsel Alan Davidson; and former Clinton White House spokesperson Mike McCurry — he's now co-chair of Hands off the Internet, an anti-regulatory group backed by companies including AT&T, BellSouth, and Cingular.
Previous BoingBoing posts on Net Neutrality: Link.
