Sens Kerry, Wyden, Cantwell, Franken Fight to Protect Network Neutrality

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) -- chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet -- along with Sens Ron Wyden (D-OR), Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Al Franken (D-MN) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) opposing any efforts to use the appropriations process or the Congressional Review Act to keep the Federal Communications Commission from doing its job and implementing these network neutrality rules.

“The final network neutrality rules, to the credit of Chairman Genachowski, are built on things everyone should support – transparency of broadband service operations, no blocking of legal content and websites, and nondiscrimination against or for specific firms or people trying to communicate and compete over the Internet. Unfortunately, the House has decided that it knows better what is good for the Internet than the people who use, fund, and work on it. They claim to stand for freedom. But the only freedom they are providing for is the freedom of telephone and cable companies to determine the future of the Internet, where you can go on it, what you can attach to it, and which services will win or lose on it,” the Senators wrote.