President Obama Supports Net Neutrality, For All The Good It Will Do

Helen A.S. Popkin, ReadWriteWeb
Mon, 11/10/2014 - 4:34am

President Obama from Everett Collection / ShutterstockThe Internet exploded in empty rhetoric Monday over Barack Obama's Congress-short, six years late endorsement of "net neutrality," an issue that will likely continue to go nowhere fast despite the president's full-throated tone.In a statement posted on the official White House website Monday, just two years before he leaves office, Obama said:I believe the [Federal Communications Commission] should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online.Obama urged the FCC to reclassify broadband service as a public utility, making it legally possible for the commission to enforce the basic tenets of net neutrality.

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President Obama Supports Net Neutrality, For All The Good It Will Do

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