From “Network Neutrality” to “Algorithm Neutrality”: Idea Changes and Enlightenment

Network Neutrality and Transparency

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than a non-neutral network that biases network traffic in a fashion that is unfavorable to end users. The contribution of this paper is linking the total value of network infrastructure based on the degree of its neutrality to market uncertainty. Rapidly changing Internet technology has created a very uncertain market (market uncertainty is defined below) in the context of providers being able ...

Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination

Communications regulators over the next decade will spend increasing time on conflicts between the interests of broadband providers and the public’s interest in competitive innovation environment on the internet. As the policy questions this conflict raises are basic to communications policy, they are likely to appear in many different forms. So far, the first major appearance has come in the “...

Beyond Network Neutrality

III. THE SHORTCOMINGS OF NETWORK NEUTRALITY AND THE CASE FOR NETWORK DIVERSITY ....................................................18 A. Network Neutrality and Static Efficiency ...................................19 1. The Potential Welfare Gains from Network Diversity and the Inherent Nonneutrality of Network Neutrality............20 2. Network Diversity and the Causes of Market Failure in the...

Network Neutrality and “Discrimination Shifting”

1 Waterman & Choi (2011) sketches the economic model of this paper in narrative form. Abstract An important aspect of the network neutrality debate is whether government should regulate only Internet service provider (ISP) transactions with upstream content providers, or to also regulate transactions with consumers. A simple model shows that a non-discrimination access rule, applied only to dis...