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That hallmark owes to the Internet's grand design.

FCC plans to formalize Internet rules on net neutrality draw fire 2009

For most of the Internet's 40-plus years of existence, Web users were protected by legally enforceable rules, not just guidelines.

FCC plans to formalize Internet rules on net neutrality draw fire 2009

The bills take aim not only at the Internet's core technical infrastructure, but at its economic and commercial infrastructure as well.

Mark Lemley: Don't Break the Internet Mark Lemley 2011

Sen. Hutchinson seeks to keep the Internet's gatekeepers at bay by forcing through a measure that would allow companies like AT&T and Comcast to block traffic without consequences.

Timothy Karr: Saving the Democratic Internet Timothy Karr 2011

A vast increase of top-level domain names will put the Internet's self-regulating body to a test.

A New Challenge for Web Freedom L. Gordon Crovitz 2012

The Internet's Domain Name System DNS is a foundational block upon which the Internet has been built and upon which its continued functioning critically depends; it is among a handful of protocols upon which almost every other protocol, and countless Internet applications, rely to operate smoothly.

Mark Lemley: Don't Break the Internet Mark Lemley 2011

Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet's addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet's extraordinary growth, and for free expression.

Mark Lemley: Don't Break the Internet Mark Lemley 2011

To begin with, the bills represent an unprecedented, legally sanctioned assault on the Internet's critical technical infrastructure.

Mark Lemley: Don't Break the Internet Mark Lemley 2011

Directing the remedial power of the courts towards the Internet's core technical infrastructure in this sledgehammer fashion has impact far beyond IP rights enforcement -- it threatens the fundamental principle of interconnectivity that is at the very heart of the Internet.

Mark Lemley: Don't Break the Internet Mark Lemley 2011

And in reality the Internet as we now know it would never have existed were it not for rules and regulation, beginning with the openness standards created by the Internet's founders some 40 years ago, codified in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and updated in recent orders by the Federal Communications Commission.

Timothy Karr: Saving the Democratic Internet Timothy Karr 2011