The future of access to Information in a mobile world

Tim Berners-Lee recently published an article in the Scientific American. In this article he is touching on various issues with regard to the future of the World Wide Web. (for example digital human right). An other issue he mentions is about access-to-information (an issue that certainly concerns the field of global development aid in which we all aim at equality). He says:

Unfortunately, in August, Google and Verizon for some reason suggested that net neutrality should not apply to mobile phone–based connections. Many people in rural areas from Utah to Uganda have access to the Internet only via mobile phones; exempting wireless from net neutrality would leave these users open to discrimination of service. It is also bizarre to imagine that my fundamental right to access the information source of my choice should apply when I am on my WiFi-connected computer at home but not when I use my cell phone.

A neutral communications medium is the basis of a fair, competitive market economy, of democracy, and of science. Debate has risen again in the past year about whether government legislation is needed to protect net neutrality. It is. Although the Internet and Web generally thrive on lack of regulation, some basic values have to be legally preserved.