Drew Curtis Quotes

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.

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

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

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

Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.

I support a free and open Internet.

We all have an interest in an open Internet.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.

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.

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.

Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

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

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

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.

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.