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===Control of data=== Supporters of net neutrality in the United States want to designate [[cable companies]] as [[common carrier]]s, which would require them to allow ISPs free access to cable lines, the same model used for [[dial-up]] Internet. They want to ensure that cable companies cannot screen, interrupt or filter Internet content without a [[court order]].<ref name="censored-2007-p34">{{cite book |title=Censored 2007 |last=Phillips |first=Peter |year=2006 |publisher=Seven Stories Press |isbn=9781583227381 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdBe64fAsiwC&q=network+neutrality |page=34 |access-date=6 October 2020 |archive-date=17 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117061945/https://books.google.com/books?id=XdBe64fAsiwC&q=network+neutrality |url-status=live }}</ref> Common carrier status would give the FCC the power to enforce net neutrality rules.<ref>{{cite web|last=Robertson|first=Adi|title=Federal court strikes down FCC net neutrality rules|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5307650/federal-court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-rules|website=[[The Verge]]|access-date=14 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115033704/http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5307650/federal-court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-rules|archive-date=15 January 2014|date=14 January 2014}}</ref> [[Save the Internet|SaveTheInternet.com]] accuses cable and telecommunications companies of wanting the role of gatekeepers, being able to control which websites load quickly, load slowly, or do not load at all. According to SaveTheInternet.com, these companies want to charge content providers who require guaranteed speedy data delivery{{spaced ndash}}to create advantages for their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video services{{spaced ndash}}and slowing access or blocking access to those of competitors.<ref name="savetheinternet.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq#what |title=Frequently Asked Questions |access-date=7 December 2008 |publisher=SaveTheInternet.com |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211200309/http://savetheinternet.com/%3Dfaq }}</ref> [[Vinton Cerf]], a co-inventor of the [[Internet Protocol]] and current vice president of Google, argues that the Internet was designed without any authorities controlling access to new content or new services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-on-net-neutrality.html |title=Vint Cerf speaks out on net neutrality |last=Davidson |first=Alan |date=8 November 2005 |website=The Official Google Blog |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114220322/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-on-net-neutrality.html |archive-date=14 January 2013}}</ref> He concludes that the principles responsible for making the Internet such a success would be fundamentally undermined were broadband carriers given the ability to affect what people see and do online.<ref name="cerf-testimony" /> Cerf has also written about the importance of looking at problems like Net Neutrality through a combination of the Internet's layered system and the multistakeholder model that governs it.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=13 August 2013|title=Internet Governance is our Shared Responsibility|journal=I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 10 ISJLP 1 (2014)|pages=1β42|ssrn= 2309772 |last1=Cerf |first1=Vinton G S |last2=Ryan|first2=Patrick S|last3=Senges|first3=Max}}</ref> He shows how challenges can arise that can implicate Net Neutrality in certain infrastructure-based cases, such as when ISPs enter into exclusive arrangements with large building owners, leaving the residents unable to exercise any choice in broadband provider.<ref name="ssrn.com">{{Cite conference|date=4 August 2015|title=The Problem of Exclusive Arrangements in Multiple Dwelling Units: Unlocking Broadband Growth in Indonesia and the Global South |publisher=The 7th Indonesia International Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business (IICIES 2015)|pages=1β16|ssrn= 2637654|last1=Ryan|first1=Patrick S|last2=Zwart|first2=Breanna|last3=Whitt|first3=Richard S|last4=Goldburg|first4=Marc|last5=Cerf|first5=Vinton G}}</ref>
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