After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.' While Ted Cruz continues to be the Taylor Swift of not getting over Obamacare.
I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.
The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.
Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.
A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.
Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.
Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.
Despite the value to Canada, our country lags in competitiveness in the global social economy.
While repealing net neutrality rules grabs headlines... net neutrality started as a consumer issue but soon became a stepping stone to impose vastly more common carrier regulation on broadband companies.
A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of 'payment for priority' is what started the net neutrality fight.