Firedoglake: FCC Commissioners Copps, Clyburn Strongly Support Open Internet

David Dayen in Firedoglake

Two FCC Commissioners and one US Senator [Al Franken] slammed the Google-Verizon joint policy agreement and strongly endorsed the principle of net neutrality last night at a hearing before hundreds of citizens in Minneapolis, giving the Chairman of the federal agency Julius Genachowski all of the support he would need to regulate broadband Internet, if he so chose

Genachowski is Obama’s guy at the FCC — it’s very depressing to me that this issue is even up for debate – between this and proposed cuts to social security (the “Catfood Commission”) I’ve pretty much had it with the Dems – mab .. read more

 

 

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