Sen Reid vows to protect net neutrality

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is pledging to protect network neutrality from Republican attacks.

In letters to net neutrality advocates, Sen Reid said he supports forthcoming rules to keep Internet providers from discriminating against certain Internet traffic and will protect those rules from Senate Republicans. “Let me be clear: I support net neutrality,” he wrote, while pledging to “lead the fight” to protect net neutrality rules “against the inevitable Republican attack against such rules.” “I believe that the Internet is one of the great equalizers of our time,” he wrote. “Especially in a time when dark money threatens to take over our political system, the Internet offers a forum for people to make a difference with ideas, not dollars.”

Sen Reid did not weigh in on what approach the agency should take in rewriting those rules but said he is “watching closely as the commission drafts these rules.” “I will work to ensure that these rules give consumers access to the lawful content they want when they want it, without interference and ensure that priority arrangements that harm consumers are prohibited,” he wrote.