Being only 30 years old, the Planet Internet has seen its population growing with the speed of light. It is perceived as one of the largest contributor to the global economic growth. The positive development trends make the World Wide Web the fastest growing telecommunication industry. The neutrality principe, brought to this Planet two decades ago, has been preyed upon by hundreds of scholars and regulatory bodies and yet, the common approach to define Net Neutrality as the concept or the rundown of the regulations it anticipates has not yet been developed. The latest Net Neutrality regulation, comprising 400 pages and 1,777 footnotes, has been for good approved by FCC in June 2015 to define how much control the service providers are allowed to have over the packets running through broadband pipes. This research will present an overview of winning and losing positions in the Neutrality debate. Furthermore, through the extensive analysis of the academic and public discourse the omitted points of the discussion will be identified. A special focus will be made on the overlooked notion of Search Neutrality. For some economists the idea of regulating the search engine mechanism in the same way as Internet service providers activity is a hypothetical measure, while for policy makers it is a pilot agenda for future regulations. By defining the losers and winers position of the debate this work is expected to lay the ground for the future research of the polygonality of the Internet governance from the economic, legal, and social point of view. There exist a burning need to define if Internet in the current state is an expression or repression tool and how with the help of normative frameworks to define a meaningful participation of the third parties.

I vincitori e perdenti in discussione sulla neutralità della rete. Un caso speciale di neutralità di ricerca.

VELYKA, ANNA
2014/2015

Abstract

Being only 30 years old, the Planet Internet has seen its population growing with the speed of light. It is perceived as one of the largest contributor to the global economic growth. The positive development trends make the World Wide Web the fastest growing telecommunication industry. The neutrality principe, brought to this Planet two decades ago, has been preyed upon by hundreds of scholars and regulatory bodies and yet, the common approach to define Net Neutrality as the concept or the rundown of the regulations it anticipates has not yet been developed. The latest Net Neutrality regulation, comprising 400 pages and 1,777 footnotes, has been for good approved by FCC in June 2015 to define how much control the service providers are allowed to have over the packets running through broadband pipes. This research will present an overview of winning and losing positions in the Neutrality debate. Furthermore, through the extensive analysis of the academic and public discourse the omitted points of the discussion will be identified. A special focus will be made on the overlooked notion of Search Neutrality. For some economists the idea of regulating the search engine mechanism in the same way as Internet service providers activity is a hypothetical measure, while for policy makers it is a pilot agenda for future regulations. By defining the losers and winers position of the debate this work is expected to lay the ground for the future research of the polygonality of the Internet governance from the economic, legal, and social point of view. There exist a burning need to define if Internet in the current state is an expression or repression tool and how with the help of normative frameworks to define a meaningful participation of the third parties.
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