{"id":2176,"date":"2006-02-10T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2006-02-10T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T19:43:17","slug":"lessig_on_netwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Lessig on Network Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Lessig, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee this week [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/Lessig_Testimony_2.pdf\">pdf<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>To answer that question, this Committee must keep in view a<br \/>\nfundamental fact about the Internet: as scholars and network<br \/>\ntheorists have extensively documented, the innovation and explosive<br \/>\ngrowth of the Internet is directly linked to its particular architectural<br \/>\ndesign. It was in large part because the network respected what<br \/>\nSaltzer, Clark and Reed called &ldquo;the &lsquo;end-to-end&rsquo; principle&rdquo; that the<br \/>\nexplosive growth of the Internet happened. If this Committee wants<br \/>\nto preserve that growth and innovation, it should take steps to<br \/>\nprotect this fundamental design. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lessig makes sense, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofb.biz\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=396\">incumbent telcos do not<\/a>.  Cringely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/pulpit\/pulpit20060209.html\">has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Lessig, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee this week [pdf]: To answer that question, this Committee must keep in view a fundamental fact about the Internet: as scholars and network theorists have extensively documented, the innovation and explosive growth of the Internet is directly linked to its particular architectural design. It was in large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}