MediaBerkman

Jack Goldsmith, Professor of Law at Harvard, talks about “Who Controls The Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World?”.

A new book co-written with Columbia Law School Professor, Tim Wu. The book asks the following questions, “Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who’s really in control of what’s happening on the Net?”

On this edition of AudioBerkman, we’ll hear from Jack Goldsmith speaking at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

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Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music for this edition for AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed from a track by mystro titled Mystro Soul Instrumental.

Colin Rhinesmith sat down with Tim Wu, Professor at Columbia Law School to ask him about his new book, “Who Controls the Internet?”. During his morning presentation, “Getting Network Neutrality”, Tim explained that “while the terms of network control have changed over the years, the question remains the same: What are the duties of the carriers of information?”

Tim described what he sees as the three main points involved in the net neutrality debate: “blocking, transparency, & tiering.” With the latter, Tim says “I happen to think that consumer side discrimination is a good form of discrimination,” arguing that user side tiering is okay, but application side tiering is not okay.

Listen to Tim discuss these points in further detail and learn more about his new book.

Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.