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You are hereMy letter to Senate Committee on Net Neutrality asking: Why now? Why worsen recession?
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2008-04-21 17:55
Below is the full text of the letter I sent to all members of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Senate leadership questioning why of all times -- now -- for pushing net neutrality?
April 22, 2008
The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye 722 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-1102 ATTN: Telecom Legislative Assistant
Dear Chairman Inouye: How many times must Congress debate "net neutrality" before it realizes that there is no real problem to address? In the two years this issue has been before Congress, the Internet has flourished and hasn’t needed "saving." None of the handful of alleged net neutrality incidents that activists consider problems -- are without very legitimate consumer-protection explanations. Moreover, these alleged incidents represent an infinitesimal amount of Internet traffic, the literally billions of communications that the thousands of American ISPs deliver weekly without problems. Succinctly, there are two key political questions for the Senate Commerce Committee to consider: 1. Is net neutrality a mainstream issue worthy of legislation?
2. Why legislate now? The bottom line here is that Congress has many legislative priorities that are more important, urgent, justified, ripe and legitimate, than tackling the wholesale reversal of Congress’s bipartisan and successful Internet policy: "
to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet…unfettered by Federal or State regulation." If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Please see the attached one pager and visit www.NetCompetition.org for more information. Sincerely, Scott Cleland, Chairman, NETCompetition.org » |