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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination” by Tim Wu, Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 2, p. 141 (2003).

Read Intro; Parts I, II, and IV; Conclusion

Tim Wu’s paper – which coined the term net neutrality – describes the financial and technical incentives driving internet service providers’ decisions regarding whether to prioritize some network data over others, and offers a potential regulatory framework for protecting the internet accordingly. Is network neutrality essential to an open, distributed, and generative internet?