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Fascinating argument twisting on the side of the carriers. From the article.
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"The First Amendment protects the right not just to decide what to say, but how to say it," National Cable and Telecommunications Association CEO Kyle McSlarrow declared last year. "Does the First Amendment really allow the government to prohibit a content or applications provider from paying to acquire the means to distribute its content in the form or manner it wishes?"
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The intent is not to disallow a provider from being able to pay to deliver content, but to prohibit him to be able to pay to be the only one to deliver content. Then ramafications are significant. Given the right for AT&T wireless to 'manage' traffic, they could argue that VoIP traffic must be managed for the good of the network, and block it, throttle it, or charge a premium for it, either to the consumer or the VoIP provider.
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