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AudioBerkman: "Live" from Freedom 2 Connect

Today is the second day of F2C: Freedom to Connect, a conference focused on issues relevant to network neutrality.  Colin Rhinesmith, producer of AudioBerkman, is blogging live from the conference and interviewing participants and panelists. 

Last night Colin posted an interview with Tim Wu, writing: 

I 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....

If you'd like to listen to the interview between Colin and Tim about Tim's new book, click here.   To check out other F2C interviews, click here to visit AudioBerkman.  The entire conference is being audiocast here: http://freedom-to-connect.net/stream.html