What Broadcast Licenses Tell Us About Net Neutrality: Cosmopolitan Broadcasting Corporation v. FCC
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For the past several years, we have witnessed a nonstop intellectual debate over the merits of net neutrality as a guiding principle for organizing the broadband capacity within the United States. At its heart the dispute over net neutrality deals with the question of who controls the various pipes that control transmission over the Internet. As with physical systems, the options here are two. The first model creates a system of public regulation of private pipes that gives the state an active role in determining the composition of the traffic. Accordingly, one common variation on net neutrality is that the government should play the same role with communications, by directing the traffic in accordance with its own prior beliefs about the just mix of broadband users. Thus the government could seek to create parity across different user classes by prohibiting a broadband provider from imposing any heavier charges, or even any charges, against any particular class of users.
Source Publication
New Directions in Communications Policy
Source Editors/Authors
Randolph J. May
Publication Date
2009
Recommended Citation
Epstein, Richard A., "What Broadcast Licenses Tell Us About Net Neutrality: Cosmopolitan Broadcasting Corporation v. FCC" (2009). Faculty Chapters. 387.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/387
