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SPOTLIGHT: Group offers net regulation compromise

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The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology has a suggestion: Instead of broadly supporting or denying network neutrality, Congress should legislate that public networks remain open and equal while service providers can choose to develop priority networks. Neutrality advocates insist it won't work because finite bandwidth dictates that priority networks will naturally inhibit public networks. On another side entirely are groups that desire as little interference as possible. Article