An Internet for the few or the many?

AN INTERNET FOR THE FEW OR THE MANY?
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Stefanie Olsen and Anne Broache]
An interview with FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. He'd like the technology industry to become more engaged in the Net neutrality debate. "I'm a believer that we have to preserve the openness of the Internet. What this boils down to is Internet freedom. Are we going to keep this platform open and dynamic and--small "d"--a democratic technology platform that we have gotten accustomed to with dial-up Internet? Or in this age of high-speed broadband, are we going to turn it over to others to operate? Are we just going to transform the whole nature of the Internet from where the pipe in the middle was dumb and the intelligence was on the ends--are we going to reverse that and give all the control and intelligence to the pipe and network operators and relegate ourselves to less of a role on the edges?"
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