On the recordApril 8, 2011
I thank the gentlelady. I just want to comment on my friend from Georgia's scholarly, even erudite, mention of the quote from Shakespeare and ``The Tempest'' because I too was thinking of ``The Tempest'' perhaps in a different line, not necessarily related to these proceedings; but you just sparked this memory of the line from ``The Tempest'' that says, ``Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.'' Now H.J. Res. 37 undercuts the authority and the mandate of the FCC during an era of increasing consolidation in the telecommunications industry. The FCC order gives the wired and wireless broadband industry too much leeway to exercise ``reasonable'' management of the Internet. The FCC order should explicitly forbid such practices as ``paid prioritization,'' a technique where ISPs funnel users to one type of content over another simply because that site or service moves faster instead of a mere pledge to monitor broadband developments. The FCC ought to be sending the strongest possible message to Internet service providers that the physical infrastructure and foundation of the Internet from which they reap immense profit was created by the American taxpayer. Instead of telling the FCC that there should be no net neutrality rules, we should be sending the FCC back to the drawing board with a message that the FCC should be more vigilant in protecting net neutrality, not less.…
