“In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.”
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“In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.”
“Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a...”
“You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are.”
“I've talked a lot about the need to promote digital empowerment: to enable any American who wants high-speed Internet access, or broadband, to get it.”
“It's vital that low-income Americans have access to communications services, including broadband Internet, which Lifeline helps to achieve.”
“Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.”
“High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.”
“To bring the benefits of the digital age to all Americans, the FCC needs to make it easier for companies to build and expand broadband networks. We need to reduce the cost of broadband deplo...”
“Increasingly, meeting the connectivity needs of all Americans - no matter where you live - means freeing up spectrum to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband.”
“Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.”
“Forty-six years after my parents' journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation's...”
“Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted compet...”
“Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a rea...”
“Spoofed robocalls are often used by fraudsters to lure consumers into scams and avoid detection.”
“Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.”
“Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria each caused billions of dollars in damage, claimed the lives of many Americans, and disrupted millions more. They also reminded us how important communicat...”
“I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the tim...”
“We need to create a level regulatory playing field. It makes no sense for Internet giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter to be allowed to buy newspapers while a small AM radio station is...”
“Consumers fare best when the barriers to business entry are low, which helps ensure that the market - any market - becomes competitive and stays that way.”
“As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessiv...”