Today's Quote II 04.28.14
"Any net neutrality proposal must ensure the same quality access to online educational content as to entertainment and other commercial offerings. We need to ensure that the Internet remains a medium...
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“I think we should delay our consideration of [Open Internet] rules by a least a month. I believe that rushing headlong into a rulemaking fails to respect the public response to his proposal.” -- FCC...
View ArticleToday's Quote 05.19.2014
"I did not spend the better part of two decades helping turn Silicon Valley from a Republican bastion to a Democratic bastion so my own team could fumble the ball on the two yard line." -- Wade...
View ArticleToday's Quote 08/06/2014
"I personally, the position of my Administration, as well as a lot of the companies here, is that you don’t want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to different users....
View ArticleToday's Quote 09.18.2014
“I will assure you that Title II is very much a topic of conversation and on the table and something that’s we’ve specially asked for comment on.”-- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom...
View ArticleToday's Quote 09.22.2014
“The bottom line is that the FCC may impose new wireless rules or demand ISP’s increase broadband speeds but, for the purposes of net neutrality, none of that matters without Title II.” - Jeff John...
View ArticleToday's Quote 10.16.2014
“President Ronald Reagan wisely said that the ‘government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,...
View ArticleToday's Quote 11.12.2014
“I am an independent agency.” - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheelerread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 11.19.2014
“I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.” - Author and actor John Hodgmanread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 01.09.2015
"I think the enforcement of the antitrust laws is absolutely fundamental to ensuring there's a competitive marketplace. But I don't believe when it comes to net neutrality that antitrust alone is going...
View ArticleToday's Quote 01.21.2015
"I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and...
View ArticleToday's Quote 01.27.2015
“Where a community -- city or county or a district -- is not satisfied with the service rendered or the rates charged by the private utility, it has the undeniable basic right, as one of its functions...
View ArticleToday's Quote 02.09.2015
“We’ve had questions about the chairman’s background ... but he clearly at some level changed his mind [and] changed his policy, based on the input he received. And he deserves to be praised for that.”...
View ArticleToday's Quote 02.18.2015
“If oil and steel were the resources that defined the 20th century, then spectrum is the commodity that will be needed to deliver the digital economy.” - David Crow, Financial Timesread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.02.2015
“What happened? The people happened. Organizing happened” - Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice, on the net neutrality decisionread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.17.2015
“Comcast wants to control the interface for everything, preferably using its X1 and X2 set-top boxes [STB]. It wants to create a standard for the industry and sell X1 and X2 to its peers, creating a...
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.18.2015
“There is no way I am apologetic. I am fiercely proud of this decision.” -- FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on net neutralityread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.19.2015
“They lit up our phone lines, clogged our e-mail in-boxes and jammed our online comment system. That might be messy, but whatever our disagreements are on network neutrality, I hope we can agree that’s...
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.26.2015
“You're playing God with the Internet … That's not your job.” -- Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX)read more
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.27.2015
“The world is going to be broadband -- wireless and fixed -- and that is where we want to be.” -- AT&T’s Chief Strategy Officer John Stankeyread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 01.13.2016
“I’m just a gay guy from Indiana who doesn’t play basketball. But now I’m the entertainment president of CBS.” -- CBS Entertainment President Glenn Gellerread more
View ArticleToday’s Quote 09.27.2016
Trump is more hostile to the legal and constitutional rights of the press than any major presidential candidate of the last two centuries.read more
View ArticleToday's Quote 09.30.2016
“Sometimes Europeans see that we have good phones and ask, ‘Why does a refugee have a phone?’ These phones are like our visas. If we lose our phones, we lose our lives.” -- Boutros, a Syrian...
View ArticleToday's Quote 10.24.2016
“Let’s be honest, prices aren’t going to go down because of this. I don’t think vertical integration lends itself to consumer benefits.” -- Rich Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG Research, on...
View ArticleToday's Quote 10.31.2016
“When the company that controls the pipes, so to speak, owns this very, very large content provider, it can cause a whole bunch of different horribles for consumers.” -- Sen Al Franken (D-MN)read more
View ArticleToday's Quote 02.06.2017
“Ajit Pai is intelligent and genial, but he is not on the side of consumers and the public interest.”read more
View ArticleToday's Quote 02.27.2017
If there were ever a moment for government leaders who believe that true information unearthed by independent news sources is vital to our nation to stand up and say so, this would be it.read more
View ArticleToday's Quote 03.13.2017
“Saying, ‘[regulation] is going to slow down our incentive to invest’ is everybody’s first line of defense...It’s balderdash.”— Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheelerread more
View ArticleToday's Quote 05.02.2017
“The FCC has basically said: ‘Game on. We’re going to let you consolidate further than anyone had imagined.’” - Richard Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG.read more
View ArticleWhat Republican Lawmakers Are Saying About FCC Chairman Pai's Proposal to...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued a statement commending Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai: “for taking bold action . . . to turn back this portion of the Obama...
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