• Silicon Valley Watcher, Thursday, June 8, 2006 10:30 AM

If you ask me, net neutrality advocates need to bring a shining example of abuse to lawmakers if they're going to get legislation passed guaranteeing equal access to bandwidth. It seems like the Silicon Valley Watcher may have found just such an example: Cox Communications, a division of telecom giant Cox Enterprises, has been disrupting access to Craigslist over its broadband Internet network. Why would they do such a thing? Precisely because printed classifieds are a major revenue source for the media giant's newspaper division, Cox Media; Craigslist, of course, is attracting classified dollars away from print. A SVW reporter verified the claims made by one of its readers by visiting the offices of Craigslist, where executives told him a company called Authentium, which develops security software for Cox, has been throttling access to the site since February. Authentium claims it's not doing this purposely, but as article points out "That's a heck of a long time to delete some text from their black list." Hmm. Sounds fishy to me.  

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