JA has dead on comments about the worrying alliance between business and government on both issues of national security and questions of open access / neutrality.
Two blogospherical story ideas, if I get to them:
1. The recent 11th hour FISA "must have tools" included corporate immunity clauses, if I believe the first reports. Why? (And I mean the whole story why...).
2. After the first reports of the FTC's rules for the auction of the coveted 700 MHz auction, groups found the partial provision for open access encouraging. Later, I read that the FTC had set a floor value for the auction of this part. Did they set the floor too high, intensionally? Who set the value of this floor and how?
What you'd want to avoid is a situation in which no one bid or no one bid enough, so that those drooling over exploiting these public assets could claim that "open access was tried and no one wanted it enough." Yikes!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Net Neutrality / Open Access
