OBAMA PLEDGES NET NEUTRALITY IF ELECTED PRESIDENT
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
[Commentary] At an interactive forum sponsored by MTV and MySpace, Presidential
hopeful Sen Barack Obama (D-IL) said he is a strong supporter of Network
Neutrality and he would make reinstating it a top priority in his first year in
office. "What you've been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers
and the various portals through which you're getting information over the
Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to
different Web sites...so you could get much better quality from the Fox News
site and you'd be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites," said Sen
Obama. "And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet
--which is that there is this incredible equality there." He added that
companies like Google may not have gotten started without a "level playing
field" and pledged to make sure Net Neutrality "is the principle that my FCC
commissioners are applying as we move forward." If nothing else, Obama's
remarks are noteworthy because they seem to affirm that Net neutrality is alive
and well as a political issue. His decision to promise "concrete steps," as
MoveOn.org called them, at a public forum could create a ripple effect,
eliciting similar pledges (or opposite ones, as the case may be) from rivals
and becoming a defining issue in the campaign.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9806707-7.html
* Obama Makes Network-Neutrality Pledge
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6495481.html?rssid=193
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