NYTimes: "Keeping the Internet Neutral"
Voglio pero' i diritti sulla metafora autostradale: http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2011-03-17/pedaggi-uguali-tutti-06... :-) juan carlos Economic Scene Keeping the Internet Neutral By EDUARDO PORTER <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/eduardo_porter/...> Published: May 8, 2012 Imagine a network of private highways that reserved a special lane for Fords to zip through, unencumbered by all the other brands of cars trundling along the clogged, shared lanes. Think of the prices Ford could charge. Think of what would happen to innovation when building the best car mattered less than cutting a deal with the highway's owners. A few years ago, Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and a leading thinker about the evolution of the "information economy," warned members <http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju27225.000/hju27225_0.HTM>of the House judiciary committee that this could be the fate of the Internet. Companies offering broadband access, he said, should not be allowed to discriminate among services online. If they did, the best service would not always win the day. "It's not who has a better product," he explained. "It's who can make a deal with AT&T, Verizon <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/verizon_communications...>, Comcast <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/comcast_corporation/in...> or Time Warner." [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/business/economy/net-neutrality-and-econom...
Riconoscimenti a parte, nel merito penso sia alquanto "singolare" parlare di neutralità della rete nel momento che quest'ultima è l'unico luogo (anche se virtuale) pubblico sul pianeta completamente privato ove i rapporti tra proprietari (degli accessi fisici, dei "contenitori semantici" ecc e frequentatori sono regolamentate da norme di diritto privato. In ambito autostradale -visto che piace il parallelo- ricordo che oltre alle autostrade esistono anche le statali le provinciali e le comunali (così come piazze, vie e anfratti cittadini, campi monti spiagge demaniali) ove l'accesso e l'uso è "libero" (regolamentato nell'ambito dei rapporti giuridici tra Stato e cittadini) e dove, pertanto, il rischio di un problema di "neutralità" non si dà per definizione. Quindi più che di "rischio neutralità" della rete parlerei piuttosto di dialettica tra "proprietari della rete". In questo contesto sarebbe certo auspicabile anche una rappresentanza dei consumatori (perchè questo sono, si badi, gli utilizzatori della rete ... altro che cittadini o popolo di internet!) per il loro "diritto al consumo"... Gianluca On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:58 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
Voglio pero' i diritti sulla metafora autostradale:
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2011-03-17/pedaggi-uguali-tutti-06... :-)
juan carlos
Economic Scene **Keeping the Internet Neutral** ** By EDUARDO PORTER<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/eduardo_porter/...> ** Published: May 8, 2012 ** ** **
Imagine a network of private highways that reserved a special lane for Fords to zip through, unencumbered by all the other brands of cars trundling along the clogged, shared lanes. Think of the prices Ford could charge. Think of what would happen to innovation when building the best car mattered less than cutting a deal with the highway’s owners.
A few years ago, Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and a leading thinker about the evolution of the “information economy,” warned members <http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju27225.000/hju27225_0.HTM>of the House judiciary committee that this could be the fate of the Internet. Companies offering broadband access, he said, should not be allowed to discriminate among services online. If they did, the best service would not always win the day. “It’s not who has a better product,” he explained. “It’s who can make a deal with AT&T, Verizon<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/verizon_communications...>, Comcast<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/comcast_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org>or Time Warner.”
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Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/business/economy/net-neutrality-and-econom... **
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