[isoc-ny] VIDEO: Oliver Sylvain on Network Equality

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Network Equality, as expressed here by Prof. Sylvain, is the principle​
that rather than network neutrality what would really benefit society is
equal access to infrastructure - not to just benefit innovation but
communication, period. It's a simple yet compelling point of view. Not yet
a thing, as evidenced by the lack of tweets
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%E2%80%8B%23networkequality&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets>,
it could well, and perhaps should, become one.


   joly posted: "Today, July 14 2015, Professor Olivier Sylvain of Fordham
Law School presented his Feb 2015 paper Network Equality in a lunchtime
talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.One
of the few clear priorities of the federal Co"

[image: Berkman Center]
<https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/07/sylvain>Today, *July
14 2015*,* Professor Olivier Sylvain
<http://www.fordham.edu/info/23185/olivier_sylvain>* of Fordham Law School
presented his Feb 2015 paper *Network Equality
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2588053>* in a *lunchtime
talk <https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/07/sylvain>* at
the *Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University*.One of
the few clear priorities of the federal Communications Act is to ensure
that all Americans have reasonably comparable access to the Internet
without respect to whom or where they are. Yet, in spite of this, the main
focus of policymakers and legal scholars in Internet policy today has been
on promoting innovation, a concept that Congress barely invokes in the
statute. The flagship regulatory intervention for this approach is “network
neutrality,” a rule that forbids Internet providers from blocking or
interfering with users’ connections. The paper critiques the prevailing
approach and call for a fundamental return to the distributional equality
principle at the heart of communications law. While it has virtue, the
singular focus on innovation could starkly exacerbate existing racial,
ethnic, and class disparities because the quality of users’ Internet
connections refract through those persistent demographic variables. Video
is below.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aUXu2cbMM?rel=0>

*View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/51aUXu2cbMM
*Transcribe on AMARA*: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/KpgaAh6DzHMh/
*Twitter*:​​#networkequality
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%E2%80%8B%23networkequality&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets>

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