Open Internet Quotes

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

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

When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.

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

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.

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.

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.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, warned Facebook of the need for consumer protection and an open Internet, and according to 'The Wall Street Journal,' Thune has sent a letter to Zuckerberg asking how the company chooses its trending topics and who is ultimately responsible.

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

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people who want to put their information on the Net and want people to have access to it.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

We have to take a long view on net neutrality.

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.

Let's make sure that the Internet stays open to those who need it the most.

The Internet eco-system should be such that users should not pay for Internet connection, content, or anything that is basic.

Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.

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.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II.

The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

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