FCC Proposal Fights for Open Internet

The Federal Communications Commission Chairman (and Obama’s Harvard classmate) Julius Genachowski outlined in his speech this morning the proposal to stop Internet providers from favoring or discriminating against Internet traffic over their networks. If it works, the FCC won’t allow, let’s say, Verizon from slowing down Skype to make their own applications seem faster.

Genachowski said the end goal here is to reserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, job creation, competition, and “free expression.”

And

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