David Olson and Net Neutrality in Portland, Oregon

This is an interview with David Olson, the Cable Director for The City of Portland, Oregon from 1983 to 2012. It is part of Media Working Group's documedia project, The Network. The struggle to have the Federal Communications Commission regulate Internet as a common carrier began in Portland, Oregon in the late 90s when the City of Portland tried to keep open the cable platform for innovation and civic engagement. Now as the FCC appears about to correct what can only be seen as an historic wrong turn by deciding to regulate the Internet through Title Two of the 1996 Communications Act, he recalls those days.