Unchecked private power is a dangerous thing.
Tim Wu, open Internet policy advocate and Columbia University law professor, speaks with Democracy Now! about the FCC’s historic vote to approve strong net neutrality rules. Watch the interview here.
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If you want to maintain innovation, maintain a place where the Internet is an economic driving engine for us and all of our communities throughout the United States, you want to maintain net neutrality … It’s not about protecting Google and Facebook, it’s really about providing conditions for the next Google and Facebook to exist.
Steven Renderos of the Center for Media Justice explains on Democracy Now! in a discussion about why the FCC shouldn’t allow certain Internet service providers “fast lanes,” but rather treat all Internet traffic equality.
“What you’re really seeing here is kind of a transformation of the Internet where 1 percent get the fast lanes and the 99 percent get the slow lanes,” explains former FCC commissioner Michael Copps on Democracy Now! today.
“That’s not what the potential and the promise of the Internet was. This was to be our town square of democracy."