The way FTC commissioner Joshua D. Wright sees it, the issue of net neutrality is fundamentally about competition. Ask Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, though, and he’ll tell you it’s about much more than that.
The disagreement cropped up during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on whether antitrust law would be a better mechanism for enforcing an open Internet framework than regulation by the FCC.
“Net neutrality is about the fear that broadband providers will enter
into business arrangements that disadvantage certain content providers,
harm competition and thereby leave consumers and Internet users worse
off,” said Wright, who was a law professor at George Mason University
before joining the FTC and also has his Ph.D. in economics. In his
prepared remarks, he said enforcing existing antitrust law would better
serve consumers in the broadband market. Wright has previously argued that the FTC is well-suited for net neutrality oversight.
“I think the debate is about how competition in the broadband sector
impacts Internet users,” Wright told Technocrat after the hearing. And
in that sense, the “net neutrality debate is fundamentally one about
competition,” he said.
But Wu argues that the issue’s about much more than competition. “It’s about everything,” he said.
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