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President Obama reaffirmed his strong commitment to maintaining an open and neutral Internet during an interview on Monday, stating unequivocally, “I’m a big believer in net neutrality.”
The President’s remark came in response to a question posed by a citizen from Indianapolis during the YouTube interview event arranged as follow-up to last week’s State of the [...]
Christine Kirchner had a nice write-up of the broadband policy panel discussions at the Knight Commission report event on October 2. Her article at Broadband Breakfast highlights the trenchant observations of Obama administration CTO Aneesh Chopra, the American Library Association’s Roberta Stevens, Microsoft’s danah boyd, and the Nike Foundation’s Lisa MacCallum, among others. Panelists didn’t [...]
Maintain the national commitment to open networks as a core objective of Internet policy. The early architecture of the Internet supported untold user innovation, yielding vast social benefits. Under the so-called “end-to-end principle,” computing intelligence resided chiefly with users at the ends of the network.
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