Should broadband companies treat all Internet sites and surfers equally? Providers have proposed charging users different rates based on bandwidth usage. But a diverse coalition of activists and companies have cried foul, rallying around the cause of "net neutrality"- the idea that all sites should be treated without discrimination. Tech Tuesday looks at competing visions of Internet governance and innovation.
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Net Neutrality
Listen Tuesday, May. 9, 2006 at 12:06 p.m. in Politics, Science, Tech Tuesday, TechnologyGuests
Edward W. Felten
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Member, US Public Policy Committee, Association for Computing Machinery
Gigi B. Sohn
President and Founder, Public Knowledge
Craig E. Moffett
Vice President and Senior Analyst for U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC
Paul Misener
Director, Office of Global Public Policy, Amazon.com
Robert E. Litan
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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