Liquid mesh

Susan Crawford sees the goal of net neutrality facing many complex challenges.

"I am as committed to the ideal of the open internet as the next guy, and my dream is to have OneWebDay support that goal. But the mischief that can be done to our future (in so many unexpected ways) by insisting on statutory and regulatory definition of neutrality seems to outweigh the possible benefits of this path. There is so much nonsense, so much horse-trading, between where we stand now and the glorious goal of neutrality. The sad fact is that Americans don't mind vertical integration one bit, and the duopolists know that. Not only that, but price discrimination in a competitive market is actually a good thing. Now all we need is a competitive market."

Before regulating networked technologies with what amount to simplistic dictats, we really need to understand how little we understand about the knowledge society and its enabling tools. As H.L Mencken once said, for every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious and wrong.