Brian Schatz Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

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

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.

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