New Survey Shows Content Concerns Trump Broadband Accessibility

Despite the Internet's growing importance to the American economy, a new poll released Monday shows more Americans are concerned with content regulation than the ramifications of ignoring the digital divide. The poll was conducted by Zogby463, a new partnership between polling firm Zogby International and 463 Communications, a public relations company representing high-tech companies. Nearly six in 10 respondents believe Internet video sites like YouTube required some form of regulation, but the group split almost evenly on whether that system should be more like the Federal Communications Commission's regulation of broadcast television, or the self-imposed rating system devised by the Motion Picture Association of America. Just over 30 percent said they believed any regulation of Internet video would be unconstitutional.