UK govt favors light regulation on Net neutrality

Speaking at the FT World Telecoms Conference on Wednesday, communications minister Ed Vaizey claimed that a "lightly regulated internet is good for business, good for the economy, and good for people". However, Open Rights Group chief Jim Killock responded by saying the government seemed to want to "encourage 'walled gardens' of ISP-provided services".

The net neutrality debate has multiple layers. On one level, the argument deals with whether ISPs can manage the traffic that flows over their networks--they already do this, and many people agree that they have to do so. However, the more emotive issue is that of whether ISPs can charge content providers for prioritizing their traffic over that of rivals.

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