Telecommunications Act Quotes

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

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

We have to take a long view on net neutrality.

In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.

President Clinton got it right in 1996 when he established a free-market-based approach to this new thing called the Internet, and the Internet economy we have is a result of his light-touch regulatory vision.

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.

In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

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

Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.

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

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

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.

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.

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

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

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