Senator Kerry's blog

This may be the only place I don’t feel the need to play up the importance of tomorrow’s Commerce Committee hearing on Net Neutrality.

When I’ve talked to other people – and when I post on other blogs – about this hearing, I always try to grab people’s attention and tell them that, even with the primary tomorrow, we need to keep our eyes on the ball when it comes to Net Neutrality and the future of the Internet.

I know I don’t have to tell all of you at SavetheInternet.com about that.

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Average: 4.4 (5 votes)

It’s great to be back addressing you here at the Free Press online community. You’ve all done a great job taking what used to be arcane telecommunications policy and injecting a very healthy dose of democratic activism into the mix.

As most of you probably already know, today is the day that Chairman Kevin Martin has decided the FCC will vote to relax the newspaper radio cross-ownership rule, which allow for greater concentration of ownership over the local media outlets across the country. The proposed rule is bad on the merits, and the process Martin has undertaken has been nothing short of disgraceful. He has ignored the duties chartered to the Commission, and he’s abrogated duties not chartered. He has undertaken a rush to judgment without any particular justification, choosing to ignore evidence that shows this rule change to be a step down the wrong path.

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Average: 5 (22 votes)

Sen. John Kerry returns to the Free Press Action Network to continue a conversation with activists and respond to your ideas about making American broadband faster, more open and affordable for everyone. You can join the discussion by responding to the Senator in the comment thread below.

By Sen. John Kerry

Last week I posted here to hear your views on how to expand Internet access for everyone, including America's small businesses.

Our country lacks a clear national broadband strategy, which is inexcusable in an area so critical for our economic competitiveness. The President promised nationwide broadband deployment by 2007 but hasn't even delivered a strategy to get there, let alone any actual accomplishments toward the goal.

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Average: 4.5 (17 votes)

If you talk to anyone in Washington, there's no disagreement that high-speed Internet access is critical to our economic competitiveness, and that a robust and competitive broadband market is key to an affordable and readily available Internet.

For small business, it is critical for the growth of their businesses and the creation of jobs.

But everyone agreeing that something's important doesn't get the ball rolling in Washington, and there's been precious little actual progress toward improving broadband penetration recently.
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Average: 4.7 (39 votes)