The significant regulatory impact of reclassifying broadband services is not something that should be taken lightly and should not be done without additional direction from Congress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.
My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.