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March 14, 2006, 02:42 PM ET
The Argument Against 'Data Discrimination'
As AT&T and BellSouth inch toward a proposed $67-billion merger, regulators and Web users must ask tough questions about what the deal would mean for the future of the Internet, according to a staff editorial in The New York Times.
After all, AT&T is one of several Internet-service providers that have expressed interest in adjusting the speeds of connections to Web sites based on how much the sites' owners pay the service providers. "AT&T should be prevented from violating the principle of Internet neutrality, which holds that consumers should be given equal access to Web sites," the Times argues.
That position is likely to be shared by many academics: The fight over connection-speed fees is, in large part, a struggle over the democratization of information. (The New York Times)
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