Net Neutrality Vital to Creative Artists AND American Public

NET NEUTRALITY VITAL TO CREATIVE ARTISTS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC, CV TELLS FTC
[SOURCE: Center for Creative Voices in Media]
In comments filed at the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Creative Voices in Media asked the Commission to protect the public interest in an open and diverse Internet by implementing significant Net Neutrality protections on the Internet. Artists' ability to create and produce their work, and then distribute that work to the American public, has often been restricted by lack of access to the means of distribution. Film and television production and distribution are tremendously expensive, and usually tightly controlled by a handful of media conglomerates. In conjunction with technological advances in video production, the Internet promises to dramatically reduce the cost of production and distribution of video content. Creative media artists view these changes as a tremendously exciting opportunity to directly reach their audience -- the American people -- with the best content they can possibly create. Yet that exciting opportunity may not come to pass if the cable and telephone companies that overwhelmingly dominate the market for broadband distribution can pick and choose who will get distribution over their “pipes” based on discriminatory fees for so-called “priority” service.
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