Ed Markey: “I think Senator Cantwell and Senator Wyden have done an excellent job in laying out the parameters of the problems that…”

“I think Senator Cantwell and Senator Wyden have done an excellent job in laying out the parameters of the problems that exist if we do not have net neutrality enshrined as the law of the land. We believe the principles of nondiscrimination--the principles that ensure that the internet is open and accessible to the smallest voices as well as the largest voices. We need laws to protect the smallest voices. We need protections to ensure that they are going to be heard, that they can innovate, that they can take their entrepreneurial zeal, their insights into the additional changes that can be made in this longstanding--now a 20-year history of dynamic changes that have taken place in the online commercial world and that they will be able to innovate. They should not have to get permission to innovate. They should not have to get permission to be able to change the way in which people communicate in our country. We shouldn't have to hire lawyers to negotiate with the lawyers of the biggest companies in the United States in order to ensure that investors aren't going to lose all their money as the small company gets tipped upside down and has all of their resources absolutely devastated by anticompetitive activity. That is what this is all about--democracy and capitalism, entrepreneurial spirit, the ability to innovate, the ability to be able to go to the marketplace. In order for capitalism to work, it has to have a conscience.…”