WWW Inventor Calls For Net Neutrality

No not Gore but Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the real inventor of the internet said earlier today in Edinburgh that there needs to be a clear distinction between internet access and internet content. It doesn't get more credible then this!

(Cnet)"It's better and more efficient for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate market where we get our content. Information is what I use to make all my decisions. Not just what to buy, but how to vote," Berners-Lee told journalists.

"There is an effort by some companies in the U.S. to change this. There's an attempt to get to a situation where if I want to watch a TV station across the Internet, that TV station must have paid to transmit to me."

I think too many people forget that it is the "WORLD" wide web and not the American wide web.

Berners-Lee characterized the issue as a U.S.-only problem at present. "In Europe, Net neutrality is the rule," he said.

Although Berners-Lee offered his support for Net neutrality, he does not support a completely unregulated telecoms and Internet market.

"The fact is that the openness of the Internet, which is such a wonderful thing, does depend on a certain amount of regulation. We've had in Britain the fact that if you put a stamp on a letter it gets there," Berners-Lee said.

Cnet also put together a list of recent articles they have done on Net Neutrality.