Sen. Leahy on Network Neutrality

by on June 12, 2006

Here’s Patrick Leahy’s take on network neutrality:

The last thing we should do is fix a problem that does not exist. We should also carefully examine any approach that would allow law enforcement agencies to set technology mandates, particularly given the challenges we have seen this year in the FBI’s own mishaps in its technology development.

The federal government so far has successfully allowed the Internet to flourish by avoiding design mandates and other limitations. We all must keep that important lesson in mind… The United States developed and nourished the Internet, and the world watches whenever we attempt to regulate it.

Oops, I’m sorry. That’s not about network neutrality, it’s another quote from his CALEA statement. My mistake. When it comes to network neutrality, Leahy seems quite comfortable with fixing problems that don’t yet exist.

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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