by Becca Vargo Daggett for The Minnesota Daily
In its Jan. 31 editorial "Keep network neutrality" the Daily missed a major opportunity to speak out about Minneapolis' plan for a privately owned citywide wireless network. Students, small companies and struggling startups will be hurt if telephone and cable companies start charging content providers. But the solution is not, as the editorial suggests, to ask Congress to impose regulations enforcing network neutrality. The solution is to build publicly owned, open access networks as an alternative to the private, proprietary networks on which we currently rely.
