What does the Fox-Cablevision dispute have to do with Net Neutrality? Everything and nothing
By Larry Downes on October 19, 2010 at 7:02 pm
When the only tool you have is a hammer, as the old cliché goes, everything looks like a nail.
Net neutrality, as I first wrote in 2006, is a complicated issue at the accident-prone intersection of technology and policy. But some of its most determined—one might say desperate—proponents are increasingly anxious to simplify the problem into political slogans with no melody and sound bites with no nutritional value. Even as—perhaps precisely because—a “win-win-win” compromise seems imminent, the rhetorical excess is being amplified. The feedback is deafening. Read more about What does the Fox-Cablevision dispute have to do with Net Neutrality? Everything and nothing