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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">On Net Neutrality, the Internet, and Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice.</span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">(A blogpost.) </span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></font></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://hannahmiller215.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/netneutralityorangejuice/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://hannahmiller215.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/netneutralityorangejuice/</a></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Last week, the United States government moved to block and restrict speech on many of the largest Internet companies in the United States, including social media, online document storage, e-commerce systems, domain-name registrars – levels of the Internet that the vast majority of users don’t know existed.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Under pressure from Congress, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, Paypal (87 million users) <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/paypal-suspends-wikileaks-account/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">shut down online payments</span></font></a> to Wikileaks, Amazon <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">kicked</span></font></a> all quarter-million documents off their servers, and Columbia University students were <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/state-department-to-colum_n_792059.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">told by State Department officials</span></font></a> to stop talking about Wikileaks on Twitter (190 million users) and Facebook (500 million users).</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">It was a major, international freedom of speech crackdown; <a href="http://en.rsf.org/wikileaks-hounded-04-12-2010,38958.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">Reporters without Borders</span></font></a> said that “the United States … has suddenly brought their policies on freedom of expression into line with those of China.”</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Meanwhile across town, Federal Communications Commission chair Julius Genachowski <a href="http://www.openinternet.gov/speech-remarks-on-preserving-internet-freedom-and-openness.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">made a speech</span></font></a> touting the federal government’s support of freedom online:</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">From the Chairman’s speech:</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<em style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><i><font size="2" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">“The Internet has been an unprecedented platform for speech and democratic engagement, and a place where the American spirit of innovation has flourished.</span></font></i></em><font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); "></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">We’ve seen new media tools like Twitter and YouTube used by democratic movements around the world.</span></font></p>
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<em style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><i><font size="2" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">If we want the Internet to be free and open around the world — and, for global peace and prosperity, we do – we must ensure its freedom and openness here at home.”</span></font></i></em><i><font size="2" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; font-style: italic; "><br>
</span></font></i><font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); "><br>It’s hard to imagine a greater moment of cognitive dissonance in American Internet policy than what happened last week, and what’s even worse, these two debates were regarded in most coverage and public conversation as not being part of a much bigger picture.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">What is called the “net neutrality” or Open Internet proceeding at the FCC – basically a civil liberties debate about whether freedom of speech and assembly should apply to commercial Internet carriers – was far overshadowed this week by the actions of the U.S. government, which demonstrated its absolute willingness to disrupt and censor the multiple other planes of operation that make up the Internet as we know it without apparently any of the due process protections that cover a Spring Break DUI checkpoint.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Regardless of how you feel about the content of Wikileaks, the actions taken by the federal government were the beginning of a new era and a new conversation about what freedom of the Internet really means, when American Internet activists and the Internet policy world is going to need to start taking government censorship as seriously as they have taken commercial censorship, and broaden the scope and meaning of “net neutrality.”</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Unfortunately, we’re not exactly starting from a strong point. Getting even the most basic First Amendment protections applied to carriers has been a long and difficult campaign (even when it’s in carriers’ self-interest to provide the maximum amount of content!), and now it appears that the FCC is going to take civil liberties protection OFF of the part of the Internet where innovation can actually happen – the wireless devices which are the focus of incredible software and media development.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">This is the single most widely understood and politicized Internet policy issue in America, something with pretty much universal implications for every other part of American society, but the FCC (like most other regulatory agencies) has apparently spent <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/02/damning-praise-genachowskis-plan" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">far more of their time</span></font></a> meeting with the people they are supposed to be policing rather than the people on whose behalf they regulate.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">The Open Internet proceeding – according to press reports – has contained in it a far more possibly damaging policy decision: the apparently unexamined idea that usage-based pricing for information is exactly like usage-based pricing for any other commodity. Is a meter on information really the same as your electric meter?</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">This seems on its face to be quite a big assumption. Do we have any evidence to show that information, as a commodity, behaves the same way and has the same economic and social impact as water or petroleum? Do we even know enough about it? You can consume a lot of water for four years and your house will be really clean and you will be really hydrated; if you consume a lot of information for four years, you could come out of it with an educational credential that will alter the rest of your career, income, productivity, not to mention changed social costs of having a more educated population. Information consumption has longer lasting effects than turning on the gas during winter.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">The Internet is a radical shift in the use and availability of information as a commodity akin to the shift to fossil fuel use in the 19th century was for energy policy; it took over one hundred years for us to even detect the cumulative effect of this (global warming) and it will take the policy world another 100 years to come up with solutions. In a country where one of our most valuable economic assets is our higher education system, in the country that basically invented the Information Age as we know it, is the FCC really going to allow meters on the Internet with less study than the feds regulate <a href="http://www.cftc.gov/anr/anrcontractsdesig98.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">frozen concentrated orange juice futures</span></font></a>?</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">At the end of the day, though, those of us who really believe in the open Internet and the good old First Amendment are going to have to seriously consider how we are going to protect the darn thing from those with the power of search, seizure, and arrest. The carriers will be fine; they’ve been beating back the FCC with their flotillas of lobbyists and lawyers since the days of Franklin Roosevelt; what worries me is the security/surveillance/defense apparatus raiding new, emerging Internet companies like a massive SWAT operation dropping down on a dusty attic full of ham radio enthusiasts.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">Amazon is </span></font><strong style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><b><font size="2" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">the world’s largest bookseller</span></font></b></strong><font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">, and a major distributor of most other digital and print media, from movies to MP3s to eBooks, and it took them about 48 hours to cave into government pressure.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">The Electronic Frontier Foundation <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/amazon-and-wikileaks-first-amendment-only-strong" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">had this to say:</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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<em style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><i><font size="2" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">“…a web hosting company isn’t the government. It’s a private actor and it certainly can choose what to publish and what not to publish. Indeed, Amazon has its own First Amendment right to do so. That makes it all the more unfortunate that Amazon caved to unofficial government pressure to squelch core political speech. Amazon had an opportunity to stand up for its customer’s right to free expression. Instead, Amazon ran away with its tail between its legs.”</span></font></i></em><font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); "></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">The Open Internet proceeding is going to ramp up again December 21, but at this point, Julius Genachowski’s stand on civil liberties has been proven to be fairly beside the point by the rest of the federal government. What’s even more amazing, the parts of the Internet industry that were touched by this government crackdown have nothing to do with the FCC or the Communications Act; as time goes on, more and more of our real communications system is going to be outside of the realm of the FCC, which already has difficulty getting people to take the bunny ears off their TVs.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#516064" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(81, 96, 100); ">The <a href="http://www.eff.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><font size="2" color="#ff8a00"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(255, 138, 0); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; text-decoration: none; ">Electronic Frontier Foundation</span></font></a> has written a great deal more about the implications for the future, and policy ideas that could bring the Internet back squarely in the realm of protected speech. There are a number of organizations now running online petitions about Wikileaks and the discussion for privacy, security, surveillance, etc is very lively. I do not want to minimize the work that has been done on net neutrality in the past, but I do think the time has arrived when the definition simply must be expanded to include a much more complicated world.</span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "></span></font></p>
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