"Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform for Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity"

A Speech By Chairman Julius Genachowski On The Open Internet. September 21, 2009 at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC.




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[maneeshpan]

An Open Internet is essential for political activism and to give the public an opportunity to comment on communications and media policy. We need Network Neutrality to ensure the Internet's participatory and openness continue. Corporate gatekeepers whether wireline or wireless should not be allowed to discriminate to protect old business models from competition like cable providers throttling bandwidth of Internet a la carte TV viewers to protect bundled cable TV.

[GeoRoAdmin]

@HeroicLife

while that may be true, ISP's do NOT own the Internet. Do you even know what the Internet is? It is a massive amount of public and private owned web server connected together via coding standards, WAN's, and LAN's. ISP's have no right to tell us what we can or can not do on the Internet even if it is over their infrastructure. If I want to go watch youtube vids or stream TV online, my ISP should not be able to say no, you can't do that, it is only common sense.

[RadxxRyan]

Screw ISPs

[andyliuliu]

where may i get a free download of this speech? i need it for my project

[HeroicLife]

The Internet is not public property. Telecommunications companies have spent billions of dollars on network infrastructure all over the world. They did so in the hope of selling communications services to customers willing to pay for them. The government has no right to effectively nationalize ISPs by telling them how run their networks.

[craigtso3]

Dwayne, net neutrality is about making sure that all content and all users are treated equally and fairly by Internet Providers. A main goal of this movement is to separate the ISP's from controlling access to,or the content itself.

Basically, net neutrality is the appplication of the 1st amendment for this generation and not a form of censorship as you stated.

As Voltaire said- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

[flyingmonkeyskin]

please explain to me why keeping the internet in a state that allows small websites to thrive is a bad thing.

[DwayneHollowayTV]

I already said the same thing about the comment to yourself. >=]

[flyingmonkeyskin]

you are an idiot.

[DwayneHollowayTV]

Stay away from our internet you sadistic control freaks.

JAY ROCKEFELLER: INTERNET SHOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED

watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY

CENSORSHIP GLOBALLY ONLINE FOR THE INTERNET FOR THEIR NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA FOR THE CONTROL OF FREE INFORMATION. THE INTERNET IS A DANGER TO THE GLOBAL ELITE AND THEY KNOW PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP EVERYWHERE.

WHAT A BUNCH A SADISTIC CONTROL FREAKS....

HELL NO TO NET NEUTRALITY SCUM!!!!