Making sure all surfers on the Web enjoy the same speed no matter
which website they visit is a fundamental free speech issue, Sen. Al
Franken (D-Minn.) said on Tuesday.
“It is absolutely the First
Amendment issue of our time,” Franken said at a Capitol Hill forum
sponsored by the advocacy group Free Press.
“Do we want deep-pocketed corporations controlling what information you get at what speed?” he added.
Franken,
who has been a critical supporter of the concept of net neutrality,
said that other members of Congress simply don’t understand the way the
Internet works.
“This has been the architecture of the Internet from the beginning, and everyone should understand that,” he said.
“Some
of my colleagues in the Congress don’t understand that. ... You just
want to go ‘Oh, come on,’ ” Franken said. “ 'Really, don’t get up and
talk unless you know something.' ”
Many Republicans in Congress
have opposed new net neutrality regulations, which they warn amount to
government intervention in an open marketplace.
But Franken, up for reelection this year, said they have it all backwards.
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