Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
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Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.
Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.
Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.
It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.
The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.
The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.