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EFF Seeks Computer Scientists, Engineers To Sign Net Neutrality Statement

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked computer scientists and network engineers to sign a statement supporting Internet openness and neutrality that the group intends to attach to its amicus brief defending the FCC's net neutrality order against legal challenges. In…

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addition to explaining the technical underpinnings of the Internet, "We want the court to understand that there is a wide consensus among network engineers, protocol developers, and Internet-based service providers that openness and neutrality are key to the proper functioning of the Internet -- and striking down the FCC’s Open Internet Order could put that proper function in danger," the EFF said Monday in a web post.