Rep Edwards Urges Peers to Sign Net Neutrality Petition

Rep Donna Edwards (D-MD) sent a letter to her colleagues on Wednesday urging them to sign a petition supporting the principles of network neutrality.

In a petition addressed to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Rep Edwards says "we cannot allow the Internet to become a commercial pay-for-play media system. An Internet without net neutrality will hamper economic growth and will serve as a barrier to the free flow of information." "The rulemaking process is an unprecedented opportunity to protect and promote consumer choice, competition, and innovation on the Internet," she wrote to her peers, adding that without the "open flow of information on the Internet much of the progress in the 20th and 21st centuries would never have taken place."