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Things I didn't have time to do Monday: I: "Net Neutrality" @ five

October 3, 2007 6:00 PM - comments (2)

Five years ago Monday, Congress (I believe) for the first time heard the word "Network Neutrality." As Tim Wu has described, in the summer of 2002, he and I talked through how the campaign to support "end-to-end" neutrality might be extended. (See, e.g., "The Policy Implications of End-to-End.") He then ran with the reframing of "Network Neutrality," and thanks to his great work, and others, the idea has stuck.

St. Thomas Aquinas wrote about laws that certain of them have moral authority in and of themselves. Such things as murder, and assault have moral force because the actions are repugnant, and an affront to the other, God as he might say. Other laws have moral authority because of our living in a community. (The exact terms that Aquinas uses escape me.) These laws forbid actions that are benign in themselves but are morally wrong when done in certainly situations, specifically within a community with agreed upon codes.