The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken himself out of the running to be the United States' first chief technology officer.
Google is developing a suite of tools to help broadband users identify traffic discrimination by their internet service providers (ISPs).
The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
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IBRS advisor Guy Cranswick argues that the use of net neutrality is an aggressive manoeuvre to retain market share and withhold change in the telecommunications market.
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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