We like the
neutrality but…
One of the biggest advocates for net neutrality has just
woken up to the fact that policing it will mean a bag load of bureaucratic red
tape.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said that while he
does not want telecommunications giants to steer Internet traffic in a way that
would favour some devices or services over others, he also believes that it
would be a terrible idea for the government to involve itself as an internet
regulator. Schmidt said that it was possible for the government to
screw the Internet up, big-time.
The US Federal Communications Commission has decided on
rules about how the government will police access to the Internet. However Schmidt, who has been a big fan of the net
neutrality suggested by the FCC was less happy about having a regulator on his
turf. How he thought that net neutrality was possible without
some form of government regulation he did not say.
More here.
