{"id":5041,"date":"2008-10-16T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2008-10-16T01:02:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T08:02:13","slug":"europes-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/europes-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAndrew Orlowski explains the state of Internet regulation in both the US and Europe in The Register<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nFor almost twenty years, internet engineers have persuaded regulators not to intervene in this network of networks, and phenomenal growth has been the result. Because data revenues boomed, telecoms companies which had initially regarded packet data networking with hostility, preferred to sit back and enjoy the returns.<\/p>\n

But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changing fast. Two months ago the US regulator, which scrupulously monitors public radio for profanity, and which spent months investigating a glimpse of Janet Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nipples, decided it needed to start writing technical mandates. And so off it went.<\/p>\n

Unnoticed by almost everyone, so did the EU.<\/p>\n

“It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the revenge of the unemployed Telecomms Regulator\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, one seasoned observer in Brussels told us this week. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The internet really put them out of business. Now they’re back.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Internet is indeed the most lightly-regulated network going, and it’s the only one in a constant state of improvement. Inappropriate regulation – treating the Internet like a telecom network – is the only way to put an end to that cycle.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Orlowski explains the state of Internet regulation in both the US and Europe in The Register: For almost twenty years, internet engineers have persuaded regulators not to intervene in this network of networks, and phenomenal growth has been the result. Because data revenues boomed, telecoms companies which had initially regarded packet data networking with … Continue reading “Europe’s Choice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1jj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}