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Justice department nixes 'net neutrality'
September 6, 2007, CBS News
In what is surely a major setback to net neutrality proponents, the US Justice department has declared that Internet Service Providers have the right to differentiate between types of Internet traffic and thereby charge differential rates for accessing the Internet. The justice department ruling says that net neutrality is bad for competition and could hamper development of the Internet and prevent service providers from upgrading or expanding their networks. While corporates like Google, Yahoo claim that such a move violates the 'end to end' principle which treats all Internet traffic as equal, ISP's have been of the opinion that content such as video clog up the 'pipes' that carry information and should be treated differentially.