Mary Bono Quotes

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

To go back to a 1950s voice mentality with Title II and net neutrality would be a tremendous mistake for our country.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

Net-neutrality proponents howled when Comcast started throttling traffic from BitTorrent, a bandwidth-hogging program people use to swap video files. The Federal Communications Commission sided with the open-Internet folks, ruling that Comcast could not selectively choke off traffic.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

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Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.