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By Vishal Misra
Communications of the ACM,
Vol. 58 No. 6, Pages 24-27
10.1145/2753120
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0001/9913/052115_CACMpg25_Routing-Money1.large.jpg?1476779475&1432143972 "Routing Money, Not Packets, illustration")
There is an old conversation between two friends, a very prominent economist and Dave Clark (one of the foundational architects of the Internet) that is often recounted by Clark:a
Economist: "The Internet is about routing money. Routing packets is a side effect. You guys really screwed up with the money routing protocols."
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Joel Malard
Vishal Misra concluding stance that "Network neutrality is the symptom; the real issue is lack of competition at the last mile," strikes me as odd.
I personally believe that free access to information is not just good for the market but that it is foremost a human right upon which our democratic institutions take their source and reason-d'etre. From that perspective Net Neutrality is a benefit whereas Competition at the Bottom is a feature and not vice-versa.