Barbara van Schewick is a professor at the Stanford Law School and director of the Center for Internet and Society, Larry Lessig’s old job. She is without question the most dedicated advocate for strict net neutrality regulations the world has ever seen. During the runup to the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order she had more than 100 meetings with FCC and Hill staff.
While many OG net neutrality advocates have dropped out of the game in the 21 years since Tim Wu delivered his paper, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, at the Colorado University Law School, BVS is still at it. She filed comments and a reply to the current net neutrality rule making in January and visited FCC staff last week to discuss her slide deck about Non-BIAS data services, the area of broadband services exempt from Internet Service Provider net neutrality regulations.
Her January recommendations would effectively erase the NBDS exception, treating all broadband service as access to the Internet even when it has nothing to do with the Internet. The comments are noteworthy because of the breadth of their paranoia, blindness to the engineering realities of today’s Internet, profound ignorance of 5G, and failure to even mention the concept of network quality of service.
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- Date Published:3/28/2024
- Original Publication:High Tech Forum