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On the recordSeptember 18, 2017
The key question, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, was, Would there be an Internet dominated by private networks with the worst impulses of human beings going on in impenetrable dark corners, or would the Internet be a platform open to the world where such impulses would be exposed to sunlight and the law?
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden discusses the vision for an open Internet versus a dark, private network.

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