The long-awaited network neutrality bill of Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) was unveiled this week. H.R. 5353 establishes a new broadband policy and requires the Federal Communications Commission to conduct an Internet Freedom Assessment, with public summits and a report to Congress.
This is one of the issues we discuss in our most recent podcast, TPW 36: The Markey bill, the politics of MS-Yahoo, and taxes on video games.
Broadband Policy
According to the bill, it would be the policy of the U.S. to:
- maintain the freedom to use for lawful purposes broadband telecommunications networks, including the Internet …
- ensure that the Internet remains a vital force in the United States economy …
- preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of broadband networks …
- safeguard the open marketplace of ideas on the Internet by adopting and enforcing baseline protections to guard against unreasonable discriminatory favoritism for, or degradation of, content by network operators …
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