Summary
The Huffington Post quotes Professor Barbara van Schewick and J.D./Ph.D. candidate Morgan Weiland on an upcoming net neutrality proposal and its implications.
Republicans are waging a last-minute campaign to gather support for net neutrality legislation that critics say will undermine the principles of a free and open Internet.
A draft proposal, circulated last week by Republican lawmakers in the House and the Senate, appears to to take a firm stance in support of net neutrality. It claims to impose regulations on consumer broadband Internet that net neutrality supporters have long advocated for, but critics say the bill is written in a way that will fail to uphold equal Internet access.
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Though the proposal offers many concessions to net neutrality advocates, critics maintain that it still fails to uphold important net neutrality principles. According to an analysis published on Tuesday by Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, the legislation “provides network neutrality in name only.”
“The bill is so narrowly written that it fails to adequately protect users, innovators, and speakers against blocking, discrimination, and access fees,” she and co-author Morgan N. Weiland, a J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Stanford Law School, wrote.
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