In the week that the FCC plans to gut network neutrality
(although the likelihood of real changes happening quickly as a result seems
remote to me), the New York Times offers a survey in its “Newsbook” column by Concepion
de Leon.
There is Tom Standage’s “The Victorian Internet: The
Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s Online Pioneers”
(Walker). Remember how I made myself
into an “institution” in the 1980s before I even had the Internet (as I found
ways to affect the AIDS debate in the early days, outside of conventional
leftist activism).
Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu ask "Who Controls the Internet?" (2006, Oxford University); in 2010 Wu would follow with “The Master Switch”. I had my own little lesson with this in 2005
when I was working as a substitute teacher.
In 2011, Thomas Hazlett offers “The Fallacy of Net
Neutrality”, which preceded Obama’s 2015 regulations. But the beginnings of neutrality
go back to 2005, and Pai wants to erase it all.
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