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Publisher: Information Gatekeepers Inc
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Zachary Stiegler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739178687
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine "net neutrality" in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives. In doing so, the book contributes to the ongoing discourse about net neutrality in the hopes that we may continue to work toward preserving a truly open Internet structure in the United States.

Author: Luca Belli
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319264257
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The ways in which Internet traffic is managed have direct consequences on Internet users’ rights as well as on their capability to compete on a level playing field. Network neutrality mandates to treat Internet traffic in a non-discriminatory fashion in order to maximise end users’ freedom and safeguard an open Internet. This book is the result of a collective work aimed at providing deeper insight into what is network neutrality, how does it relates to human rights and free competition and how to properly frame this key issue through sustainable policies and regulations. The Net Neutrality Compendium stems from three years of discussions nurtured by the members of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality (DCNN), an open and multi-stakeholder group, established under the aegis of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Author: Jan Krämer
Publisher: Centre on Regulation in Europe asbl
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Since the ‘net neutrality’ debate began in the early 2000s, the internet ecosystem has evolved and European policymakers now face a different type of gatekeeper. This CERRE Tech, Media, Telecom report identifies the main competitive bottlenecks and discusses whether the key pillars of net neutrality regulation – openness, non-discrimination and transparency – should also apply to certain types of devices, such as smartphones and laptops. Assuming that smartphones are likely to be the first choice for consumers accessing the internet and that they are, therefore, a crucial element of the internet access value chain, the authors of the CERRE report make concrete suggestions, focusing on operating systems, app stores and browsers. “Crucially, the policy objective should be to enable consumers to bypass gatekeepers and access content via multiple channels, but not ‘neutrality’ in the narrow sense,” said Jan Krämer (co-author of the report and CERRE Academic Co-Director). “Non-neutral conduct is important for innovation, investment, security and privacy.” In light of existing EU regulation, specifically the Platform-to-Business (P2B) Regulation and the Digital Markets (DMA) and Digital Services (DSA) Acts, the report makes a number of recommendations, aiming to ensure openness, non-discrimination and transparency when accessing the internet on mobile devices. More accessible and less discriminatory app stores As they represent a gateway for consumers to access other content and apps, the authors, Jan Krämer and Richard Feasey, make several policy recommendations for app stores that aim to strike a balance between mitigating the competitive gatekeeper advantage and maintaining the user convenience offered by pre-installed apps. These include: Enabling alternative app stores to be easily installed on devices, including by requiring the pre-installed app stores to host rival app stores with independent payment systems. Unbundling the dominant app store from other apps. Banning self-preferencing of apps in app stores or browsers. Careful consideration of how the transparency and redress mechanisms for dominant app stores under P2B, DMA and DSA obligations may interact when imposed concurrently. “In important areas, including app stores and browsers, our recommendations build upon, but go further than, the obligations under the P2B regulation and the foreseen obligations under the DMA and DSA.” – Richard Feasey (co-author of the report and CERRE Senior Advisor) Openness, transparency and data portability for operating systems As third parties may face discriminatory access to operating system (OS) functionality or system resources, as well as limited browser functionality on an OS, CERRE makes four main suggestions to improve competition and choice: Enabling side-loading of apps in dominant operating systems, such that consumers can install any lawful and safe app on their device. More stringent user consent rules for pre-installed apps, to align them with the consent required for apps that are installed later, the same access privileges for both pre-installed and alternative apps, and the possibility to truly de-install pre-installed apps. Transparency obligations on interfaces (APIs) for third-party (app developer) access to operating systems and minimum notice periods in case those interfaces are changed. The right to data portability (as well as codes of conduct and common interfaces) for devices, so that consumers can switch from one device (operating system) to another as smoothly as possible. “By intervening at the operating system and app discovery layer to ensure access to alternative content, the Commission can foster fairer competition in the internet access value chain without hindering innovation, investment and the European principles of consumer safety and security.” – Jan Krämer The report was presented and debated on Tuesday 8 June, 14:00 CEST, during the CERRE public webinar “Device neutrality: regulating mobile devices”.

Author: Andrew C. Firth
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781612099835
Category : Internet
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Internet has thrived because of its freedom and openness, the absence of any gatekeeper blocking lawful uses of the network or picking winners and losers online. Consumers and innovators do not have to seek permission before they use the Internet to launch new technologies, start businesses, connect with friends or share their views. Consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use and are free to decide what content they want to access, create, or share with others. This openness promotes competition. This book examines the open Internet, and the role of the FCC and their authority to regulate net neutrality.

Author: Danny Kimball
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472902458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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“Net neutrality,” a dry but crucial standard of openness in network access, began as a technical principle informing obscure policy debates but became the flashpoint for an all-out political battle for the future of communications and culture. Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet is a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally “boring” world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics. While previous studies and academic discussions of net neutrality have been dominated by legal, economic, and technical perspectives, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet offers a humanities-based critical theoretical approach, telling the story of how activists and millions of everyday people, online and in the streets, were able to challenge the power of the phone and cable corporations that historically dominated communications policy-making to advance equality and justice in media and technology.

Author: Russell A. Newman
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262551810
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet. Media reform activists rejoiced in 2015 when the FCC codified network neutrality, approving a set of Open Internet rules that prohibitedproviders from favoring some content and applications over others—only to have their hopes dashed two years later when the agency reversed itself. In this book, Russell Newman offers a unique perspective on these events, arguing that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment rather than counter to it; perversely, it served to solidify the continued existence of a commercially dominant internet and even emergent modes of surveillance and platform capitalism. Going beyond the usual policy narrative of open versus closed networks, or public interest versus corporate power, Newman uses network neutrality as a lens through which to examine the ways that neoliberalism renews and reconstitutes itself, the limits of particular forms of activism, and the shaping of future regulatory processes and policies. Newman explores the debate's roots in the 1990s movement for open access, the transition to network neutrality battles in the 2000s, and the terms in which these battles were fought. By 2017, the debate had become unmoored from its own origins, and an emerging struggle against “neoliberal sincerity” points to a need to rethink activism surrounding media policy reform itself.

Author: Christopher T. Marsden
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526105497
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Net neutrality is the most contested Internet access policy of our time. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concept, addressing its history since 1999, its engineering, the policy challenges it represents and its legislation and regulation. Various case studies are presented, including Specialized Services and Content Delivery Networks for video over the Internet, and the book goes on to examine the future of net neutrality battles in Europe, the United States and developing countries, as well as offering co-regulatory solutions based on FRAND and non-exclusivity. It will be a must-read for researchers and advocates in the net neutrality debate, as well as those interested in the context of communications regulation, law and economic regulation, human rights discourse and policy, and the impact of science and engineering on policy and governance.

Author: Jorge Pérez Martínez (Coord.)
Publisher: Fundación Telefónica
ISBN: 8408098926
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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After a decade of discussion on how to guarantee an open, sustainable internet and often intense debate regarding the Federal Communications Commission's 2009 public hearing on the application of the principles of net neutrality, on 21st December 2010 the various elements that comprise the solution to this now famous controversy were passed. This solution has not satisfied many people, and nearly everyone agrees that it will not end the debate and nor will it resolve the underlying structural problems. This book examines the source, development and viewpoints on this issue based on contributions from leading experts from the academic and business worlds in the USA and Europe who have been involved in the debate. This is a highly important book for understanding the various points of view on the very current and controversial issue of web neutrality.

Author: Alison N. Novak
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042984736X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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In the months after the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 decision to repeal network neutrality as US policy, it is easy to forget the decades of public, organizational, media and governmental struggle to control digital policy and open access to the internet. Using dialogic communication tactics, the public, governmental actors and organizations impacted the ruling through YouTube comments, the FCC online system and social network communities. Network neutrality, which requires that all digital sites can be accessed with equal speed and ability, is an important example of how dialogic communication facilitates public engagement in policy debates. However, the practice and ability of the public, organizations and media to engage in dialogic communication are also greatly impacted by the FCC’s decision. This book reflects on decades of global engagement in the network neutrality debate and the evolution of dialogic communication techniques used to shape one of the most relevant and critical digital policies in history.