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Discrimination Against Internet Content As Internet content becomes more bandwidth-intensive and as last-mile broadband providers seek to advance their own commercial interests, these providers increasingly have the incentive and the ability to discriminate against different types of content and applications that they are charged with transmitting. To do so, ISPs must be able to discern relevant information about such content and applications. Recall that such content is broken down into component packets before it is transmitted.
That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. . While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death. . 5 In these early influential First Amendment opinions, Justices Holmes adopted the marketplace of ideas or free trade in ideas theory in opposition The First Amendment’s Free Speech Guarantee 27 to government censorship, which happened to be the major form of censorship with which speakers were then confronted.
S. universities to the Internet. In 1988, the NSF collaborated for the first time with a consortium of private-sector organizations to complete a long-distance wide-area network (known as the NSFNET backbone). With substantially increased usage of this network, in 1992 traffic on NSFNET was near capacity, and the consortium of private-sector entities established a private organization called Advanced Networks and Services to build a new “backbone” with substantially greater capacity. S. 98 Shortly thereafter, in 1993 the NSF concluded that the Internet was growing too fast for the NSF to continue managing it, and decided to delegate the management of the Internet backbone to private, commercial operators.