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FCC Endorses Net Neutrality

September 22, 2009 on 11:59 am | In IdBlog, Spin | Add a Comment

FCC chair Julius Genachowski laid out the principles of Net Neutrality in a speech at the Brookings Institution yesterday.

As the Washington Post reported, this is just the beginning of the process. However, the net neutrality guidelines are being drafted in response to moves already made by ISPs to curtail service. “This is not about protecting the Internet against imaginary dangers,” Genachowski said. “We’re seeing the breaks and cracks emerge, and they threaten to change the Internet’s fundamental architecture of openness.”

The Wall Street Journal covered the reaction of telecom lobbyists, most of whom were not happy.

Brookings has the full transcript of the speech and video on their events page.