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Wednesday 29 October 2008

It’s essential that we preserve the architecture of the internet. Under the guise of free market experimentation, big companies with monopoly positions in local markets are asking us to change the fundamental rules that have served the internet so well. They want to be able to charge differential fees for different types of data traffic. This will, quite simply, be the end of the internet as we know it, turning it into a network that works much more like the cellphone network, slow to innovate, hostile to its users, extracting profits through artificial barriers rather than true value creation. Barack Obama supports net neutrality; John McCain, as in other areas, once again claims that government should get out of the way. Tim O’Reilly

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