The internet today is an open platform where the demand for websites and services dictates success. You’ve got barriers to entry that are low and equal for all comers. And it’s because the internet is a neutral platform that I can put on this podcast and transmit it over the internet without having to go through some corporate media middleman. I can say what I want without censorship. I don’t have to pay a special charge. But the big telephone and cable companies want to change the internet as we know it. They say they want to create high-speed lanes on the internet and strike exclusive contractual arrangements with internet content-providers for access to those high-speed lanes. Those of us who can’t pony up the cash for these high-speed connections will be relegated to the slow lanes … We can’t have a situation in which the corporate duopoly dictates the future of the internet and that’s why I’m supporting what is called net neutrality.
BARACK OBAMA, podcast, Jun. 8, 2006
“Your internet will run SO much better with the government in charge – just like health care, the Post Office, and the DMV!”
– but I do have to be monitored.
– So I say, slow 4G networks down to the same speed as dial-up. For fairness.
– I’d like to know how he defines this “duopoly.” Not enough to read his speech, though.