Political Quotes

“today is the net neutrality day of action. So I wanted to add a few words to this issue. We depend on a free and open internet to spur innovation and job creation, and our economy works best when innovators, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes compete on a level playing field. Net neutrality, very simply, says that everyone--consumers, small businesses, startups--deserve the same access to and quality of internet as big corporations. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, my father owned a small exterminating business. If his competitor down the street had received preferred electricity service, he would have been rightly outraged, and the law would have protected him from that unfair treatment. We don't reserve certain highways for a single trucking company, and we don't limit phone service to hand-picked stores. We shouldn't reserve high- speed internet for a favored few corporations, either, and that was the basis of the FCC's decision to preserve net neutrality back in 2015. Now, of course, conservative and industry interests see an opportunity to roll back these protections and free access to a free and open internet in order to favor powerful corporations. That seems to be what they want. President Trump's appointee to the FCC, Chairman Ajit Pai, has already taken several actions to undercut fair internet access.…”