A group of industry and nonprofit groups on Tuesday announced the formation of Internet for Everyone, a group dedicated to promoting broadband deployment and network neutrality. The latter is the principle that cable and telephone companies should keep their broadband pipes open to any kind of Web content or network application—even those that compete with the companies’ own offerings—and should not favor certain types of network traffic with fast-lane delivery to people’s computers.
The higher-education groups that are part of the coalition are Educause, Internet2, and the Yale Information Society Project, which examines how new technologies affect law and society.
The group also include these law professors: Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lawrence Lessig and Barbara van Schewick of Stanford University, Yochai Benkler of Harvard University, and Jack Balkin of Yale University.—Andrea L. Foster
