Amazon Makes the Case for Net Neutrality

AMAZON VP PAUL MISENER MAKES THE CASE FOR NET NEUTRALITY
[SOURCE: E-Commerce Times, AUTHOR: Erika Morphy]
An interview with Paul Misener, vice president of Global Public Policy for Amazon.com. An engineer by profession, Misener has worked at the Federal Communications Commission -- a background that allows him to speak from both a regulatory and technical perspective when he testifies to Congress, which he does frequently. What's a worse case scenario, if net neutrality isn't made law? "Carriers say they would prioritize content based on economic reasons. But if they have that latitude for financial purposes, then they can also do it for political reasons. A carrier could block access to a labor union site during a dispute. It could block access to a Web site after a special interest group makes a lot of noise about it. It could even block a political site to curry favor with the current administration. All that sounds far fetched, but the whole point is that there is nothing in place to stop carriers from doing it. So why dismantle the protection?
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