FCC & Net Neutrality: Part 1 | techlobbyist

The Net Neutrality issue has been hot the last few months, and it probably won’t be cooling with the Fall weather. There is already one bill sitting in committee, and another from Byron Dorgan and Olympia Snowe on the way. In addition to this, the big news toward the end of September was the FCC’s policy statement on Net Neutrality. This was accompanied by the launching of the FCC’s new site OpenInternet.gov to go along with it’s sister site, Broadband.gov.

After reading over FCC Chairman Juilus Genachowski’s speech and considering my comments, I felt that a lot of the nuances of what he talked about may get lost in a simple response. So I decided that I would just break the whole thing down. I’ll be splitting his speech up over several parts and providing responses to what he had to say...