“Change is difficult, especially when your business — in this case the broadcast business — provides a valuable national service, but does so in an environment in which increasingly over-the-air is only one of the platforms available to distribute video.”— Tom Wheeler, fcc.gov
“There has to be some ability on the part of government to oversee, to assess, and, if warranted, to intervene.”— Tom Wheeler, fcc.gov
“Not unlike how the radio stations of 1920s needed to be protected from technical interference, today’s entrepreneurs need to have a fair opportunity to reach their customers over the biggest technological channel of them all – the Internet.”— Tom Wheeler, fcc.gov
“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
“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
“A network that is as neutral as possible is predictable: all applications are treated alike.”— Lawrence Lessig, Timothy Wu, savetheinternet.com