Brian Schatz Quotes

Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

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

The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.

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.

I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

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

President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.

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

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

I support a free and open Internet.

While repealing net neutrality rules grabs headlines... net neutrality started as a consumer issue but soon became a stepping stone to impose vastly more common carrier regulation on broadband companies.

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

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

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.

I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Washington faces a simple choice: allow the Internet to remain as an engine of innovation, a platform for speech in even the harshest tyrannies, and a unified connection for people across the globe—or cede control of the Internet to service providers motivated by their parochial interests.