Dick Durbin blogging about broadband at Red State
July 31st, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserOur friends at Red State have invited Sen. Dick Durbin to their blog, in an effort to solicit opinion about broadband legislation that Sen. Durbin will be drafting.
FreedomWorks’ message for Sen Durbin: Please oppose any effort to impose federal “net neutrality” regulations on broadband service. If you want to improve the market for broadband, draft legislation that gets government out of the way and lets freedom work.
Read his comments here.
There are several reasons why I chose America’s broadband strategy as the issue for this process. First of all, those who are active on the issue of broadband policy and have the knowledge and experience to help me draft this legislation tend to leverage the power of the internet for advocacy efforts. This is the perfect forum for this issue.
Secondly, I think this is one of the most important public policy questions we face today. We need to make broadband access a national priority. Many of you probably recall that in early 2004, President Bush called for universal and affordable access to broadband by the year 2007. Unfortunately, that goal is not even close to being met.
