Brian Schatz Quotes

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.

I support a free and open Internet.

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

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.

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

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

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

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 Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.

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

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

The Internet is working because it's free and open, and there's no discrimination. Without these rules, ISPs could treat content differently based on commercial interests or even ideology.

I think we should not control the Internet.

The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

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

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.

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.

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.

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

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.