Public Knowledge – Net Neutrality Video is a two minute (extremely) high-level overview of the US-centric potential for telcos to dominate the internet landscape by favouring access to particular providers, or particular filetypes (e.g. video from apple).
It’s all about mucky lobbying from telcos in Washington.
I love the US centricity of this – surely this would create another nail in the coffin for US-led innovation…as start-ups etc. would aggregate their product development, hosting etc. in more open, net friendly environments.
And what a fantastic opportunity for the EU to pass some meaningful legislation, preventing this sort of activity in the European Economic Zone – bing – instant innovation environment and a big fu to the US trading bloc.
Om Malik (where I got the link) made an interesting point – _”highly organized phone companies, who use their immense knowledge of legislative procedure as a competitive strategy. The real innovation, for oligopolies is lobbying.”_
Great point. And a damning indictment of the US business landscape.