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On the recordApril 14, 2010
The Internet is an extraordinary innovation in our lives. We tend to take it for granted, I suppose, because it is so normal for all of us every day to use the Internet, whether it is a wireless device or a laptop computer, or whatever. We use the Internet in so many different ways. The question is: What is the regulatory approach to the Internet? We know what we have done for telephones over the many years, the many decades of regulatory capability. What is it for the Internet? What we have always had for the Internet from its origin is what is called a free and open Internet, the open architecture. Anybody can get on the Internet with their Web site, and anybody from the rest of the world who has broadband capability or Internet capability can access that site. A man named Larry and a man named Sergey in a dorm room in California conceived of something which 10 years later we know as Google.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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The speaker addresses the regulatory approach to the Internet following a recent court decision.

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