Obama pledges Net Neutrality if elected President

OBAMA PLEDGES NET NEUTRALITY IF ELECTED PRESIDENT
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
[Commentary] At an interactive forum sponsored by MTV and MySpace, Presidential hopeful Sen Barack Obama (D-IL) said he is a strong supporter of Network Neutrality and he would make reinstating it a top priority in his first year in office. "What you've been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you're getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web sites...so you could get much better quality from the Fox News site and you'd be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites," said Sen Obama. "And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet --which is that there is this incredible equality there." He added that companies like Google may not have gotten started without a "level playing field" and pledged to make sure Net Neutrality "is the principle that my FCC commissioners are applying as we move forward." If nothing else, Obama's remarks are noteworthy because they seem to affirm that Net neutrality is alive and well as a political issue. His decision to promise "concrete steps," as MoveOn.org called them, at a public forum could create a ripple effect, eliciting similar pledges (or opposite ones, as the case may be) from rivals and becoming a defining issue in the campaign.
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