“The FCC must stand strongly behind its responsibility to oversee the public interest standard and ensure that the Internet remains open and fair. The Internet is and must remain the greatest engine of free expression, innovation, economic growth, and opportunity the world has ever known. We must pre…”— Tom Wheeler, recode.net
“Do we want the government to control the Internet? Or do we want to embrace the light-touch approach established by President Clinton and a Republican Congress in 1996 and repeatedly reaffirmed by Democratic and Republican FCCs alike?”— Ajit Pai, recode.net
“The internet was free and open from the dawn of the internet age during the Clinton administration until 2015.”— Ajit Pai, recode.net
“I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online.”— Barack Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
“By imposing those heavy-handed economic regulations on Internet service providers big and small, we could end up disincentivizing companies from wanting to build out Internet access to a lot of parts of the country, in low-income, urban and rural areas, for example.”— Ajit Pai, pbs.org
“A network that is as neutral as possible is predictable: all applications are treated alike.”— Lawrence Lessig, Timothy Wu, savetheinternet.com
“In order to justify preemptive regulation of all 4,462 Internet service providers, you should have pretty concrete evidence of an overwhelming market failure.”— Ajit Pai, pbs.org
“The end of Net Neutrality is basically the free trial of the internet expiring.”— vociferousnoodle, reddit.com
“If net neutrality ceases to exist, Blockbuster Video is going to make greatest comeback ever.”— joncology, reddit.com
“For people who have no Internet in the first place, the idea of net neutrality is not exactly top of mind. Getting online cheaply in the first place is a greater concern, and the American companies are often enabling that to happen. Internet access is expensive in developing countries—exorbitantly s…”— David Talbot, technologyreview.com