"Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor who specializes in Internet policy issues, thinks Wheeler’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. Full details of his plan haven’t been released yet, but in a 26-page analysis released last week, she ticks off a series of concerns about Wheeler’s proposal.
First, she asks if the FCC’s anti-throttling ban will apply only to discriminatory treatment against specific applications (for example, penalizing Netflix while treating Hulu or Amazon more favorably) or against entire classes of applications (for example, penalizing movie-streaming applications while favoring photo and text-based sites). Van Schewick thinks both types of discrimination should be banned, but the FCC’s language has been unclear."
- Date Published:02/24/2015
- Original Publication:MIT Technology Review