Tim Wu Quotes

Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.

Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

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.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.

Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.

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.

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

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

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

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

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

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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.

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.

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

I'm for Internet openness. We're all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in favor of it.

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