La storica associazione USA a difesa dei diritti civili si esprime sulla neutralita' della rete. juan carlos ACLU: Net neutrality needed to keep ISP "wolves" at bay By Nate Anderson <http://arstechnica.com/author/nate-anderson/> | Last updated 6 days ago Are Internet service providers more like wolves, foxes, bridge owners, or priests with the "sacred role of making available to citizens a forum for speech and self-expression"? According to the American Civil Liberties Union, ISPs are like all four; it's the government's job to make sure that they behave more like the priests than like the wolves, foxes, and discriminatory toll collectors. In an analogy-stuffed new paper <http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/NetNeutrality_report_20101019.pdf> (PDF) on network neutrality, the ACLU argues that the Internet has now entered its "third stage." The first stage was the dial-up era, where a million ISPs bloomed across the US and competition was rampant thanks to common carrier regulation of the telephone network. In the second stage, the "constant vigilance and loud campaigning of Internet activists" kept network neutrality provisions in play even as the regulatory basis for them crumbled. Now we come to the third stage, where "the giant for-profit companies that now dominate Internet access do not want to be constrained by network neutrality rules." Thanks to a 2010 court decision in favor of Comcast, the FCC has lost much of its ability to enforce nondiscrimination principles on the Internet. Combine this with the recent rise of deep packet inspection hardware, and the ACLU foresees a brave new world of filtering and control "which could fundamentally alter the architectural structure of the Internet." [...] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/aclu-net-neutrality-needed-t...