Sen Cruz talks Title II on the campaign trail

Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to regulate broadband networks in a new campaign trail video released by Protect Internet Freedom, a conservative group fighting the agency’s network neutrality rules.

Sen Cruz unloads on Title II in the five-minute video, filmed during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, saying it makes the Internet a “regulated public utility.” As Sen Cruz has done before during the net neutrality fight, he takes a few liberties with some facts. He alleges that if the FCC rules hold up in court, “anyone who wants to innovate has to go to government regulators to get permission to launch some new website, to do something novel on the Internet.” Nothing in the Open Internet Order would give government control over who launches a website.