Internet Policy Quotes

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.

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

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

President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

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.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

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

The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship each citizen has to the government and about the extent to which we trust one another with the full range of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution.

I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet, the whole concept of cyberspace, vulnerable to rampant censorship - he pushed that bill, and I know the man in the Justice Department whom he persuaded - the guy didn't want to lose his job - to write the bill.

Notably, the FCC fact sheet regarding the net neutrality plan does not mention any accommodations for small providers.

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.

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.

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

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

Obama routinely pushed policy that pleased the tech-savvy, including his successful effort to keep broadband suppliers from giving preferential treatment to bigger web companies over individuals.

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.

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

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?