# Professor Nicholas Economides explains how internet providers' definition of the open internet differs from true network neutrality

1 Faculty News October 3, 2017 ![Center for Public Integrity logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/centerforpublicintegrity192x144.jpg?itok=GozPTb7f)>

Excerpt from the [Center for Public Integrity](https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/10/03/21196/future-internet-grabs-theoretically) -- "Internet service providers 'may have a PR position in which they say they love the open internet, but what they mean by open internet, does not include network neutrality,' [Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides) said. 'It's stuff that lobbyists put around because it sounds good to the average congressman or even the average voter, but it has nothing to do with the public interest.'"

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