EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The EFF has written an analysis of the Net Neutrality deal brokered between Verizon and Google. While the EFF agrees with substantial portions of it, such as giving the FCC only enough authority to investigate complaints, rather than giving them a blank check to create regulations, there are a number of troubling issues with the agreement. In particular, they're concerned that what constitutes 'reasonable' network management is in the eye of the beholder and they don't like giving a free pass to anyone who claims they're attempting to block unlawful content, even when doing so in such a way that they interfere with lawful activities. On balance, while there are some good ideas about how to get Net Neutrality with minimal government involvement, there are serious flaws in the agreement that would allow ISPs to interfere with any service they wanted to because there is no algorithm that can correctly determine which numbers are currently illegal."

Comments

Re:Who decides what is "lawful"?

[TheGratefulNet]

layer-8.5, the policing layer, of course.

like I commented on my previous post on this subject, the concepts of 'legal' and 'ip datagrams' should NEVER co-mingle. they are as orthogonal as it can get.

keep your damned PORK-FED POLITICATS out of my datacomm network!

they mess up everything they touch and I do not want them (further) ruining our one last resource of free human expression.

dammit.

And I'm sure

[ThatsNotPudding]

They didn't write any legislation. They wrote up some suggestions that the FCC and the Congress are free to use or discard. They have every right to do that.

I'm sure that's written on the post-it note stuck to VerGoozon's massive campaign donation checks; 'just a suggestion'.