Berners-Lee calls for Net Neutrality

BERNERS-LEE CALLS FOR NET NEUTRALITY
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Jonathan Bennett]
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear separation between Internet access and Internet content. Speaking at the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, Berners-Lee gave his views on the growing battle over Net neutrality. "It's better and more efficient for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate market where we get our content. Information is what I use to make all my decisions. Not just what to buy, but how to vote," Berners-Lee told journalists. "There is an effort by some companies in the U.S. to change this. There's an attempt to get to a situation where if I want to watch a TV station across the Internet, that TV station must have paid to transmit to me." Berners-Lee characterized the issue as a U.S.-only problem at present. "In Europe, Net neutrality is the rule," he said. Although Berners-Lee offered his support for Net neutrality, he does not support a completely unregulated telecoms and Internet market. "The fact is that the openness of the Internet, which is such a wonderful thing, does depend on a certain amount of regulation. We've had in Britain the fact that if you put a stamp on a letter it gets there," Berners-Lee said.
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