Squabble over net neutrality resumes

April 16, 2008 When the FCC convenes its second hearing on what it calls "network management" Thursday, it will have covered both coasts and the universities that played midwife to the Internet. While the commission calls it network management, most of the people with a stake in the hearing call it network neutrality -- a hotly debated policy notion that likely will define just how far a company can go to control what and how fast information flows over the Internet's backbone. Proponents of government action argue that a net neutral policy is necessary to overcome budding abuses perpetrated by the big network companies.

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