Signs of hope - "Net Neutrality fighters to head Obama's FCC transition team."

Net Neutrality fighters to head Obama's FCC transition team - Boing Boing:

"Obama's FCC transition team is to be headed up by two of the smartest, hardest-fighting Net Neutrality advocates I know: Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach. This bodes very very well indeed for American telcoms policy..."

What is Net Neutrality, you ask?

Here you go: Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Absolute Non-Discrimination: Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu: 'Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally.'

Google's 'Guide to Net Neutrality': 'Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days... Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online.'"