Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review

Nov 16, 2008 (Click to Rate!) Loading ...

Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that telcos will not continue to write the rulebook when it comes to handling communications online.

My hope is that the FCC is given the support of the government to step and in and regulate communications effectively without worry that said telcos can simply pull some strings and have them silenced as we saw happen under the Bush administration.

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3 Comments For This Post

Jigsaw hc Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 9:32 am

I agree. Sounds like it is a step in the right direction.

Riyad Kalla Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am

I am *very* excited to see where this administration takes us. The focus on technology has me very excited as I think that’s the only way we can move our country forward… if you go back in time to the dawn of “advanced” civilizations, it’s *always* been technology, no matter how trivial, that dictated which countries moved forward and were successful and which countries were stymied and left behind; typically due to unwavering religious dogma (China and the middle east are *excellent* examples of this… if you go back 100s and 100s of years, you see them as pinnacles of innovation and can almost directly map the declining importance of those countries at the exact moments that religious beliefs completely stopped progress from occurring).

NOTE: Not saying religion is bad, it can be beautiful, just in those two particular cases, the religious beliefs pushed a closed/stalled society away from technological progress and have stymied the countries in perpetuity.

NOTE: For more reference on this, check out Guns, Germs and Steel as well as Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, damn interesting reads.

I do like that most of Obama’s plans are structured around enhancing tech, keeping it fair, shaking out the cruft from these processes and getting people’s greedy hands off of open services like the internet and protecting that opportunity for the people; which will allow them to grow and thrive.

I’m also looking forward to the technical advisor/CTO job that he created and see what kind of green efforts and technologies that they encourage moving forward.

I’ll reserve my judgment until he’s had a year in office, but I’m very excited right now given the types of things we are seeing get setup.

Deep Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

Jigsaw hc Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I agree. Sounds like it is a step in the right direction.
Riyad Kalla Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I am *very* excited to see where this administration takes us. The focus on technology has me very excited as I think that’s the only way we can move our country forward… if you go back in time to the dawn of “advanced” civilizations, it’s *always* been technology, no matter how trivial, that dictated which countries moved forward and were successful and which countries were stymied and left behind; typically due to unwavering religious dogma (China and the middle east are *excellent* examples of this… if you go back 100s and 100s of years, you see them as pinnacles of innovation and can almost directly map the declining importance of those countries at the exact moments that religious beliefs completely stopped progress from occurring).

NOTE: Not saying religion is bad, it can be beautiful, just in those two particular cases, the religious beliefs pushed a closed/stalled society away from technological progress and have stymied the countries in perpetuity.

NOTE: For more reference on this, check out Guns, Germs and Steel as well as Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, damn interesting reads.

I do like that most of Obama’s plans are structured around enhancing tech, keeping it fair, shaking out the cruft from these processes and getting people’s greedy hands off of open services like the internet and protecting that opportunity for the people; which will allow them to grow and thrive.

I’m also looking forward to the technical advisor/CTO job that he created and see what kind of green efforts and technologies that they encourage moving forward.

I’ll reserve my judgment until he’s had a year in office, but I’m very excited right now given the types of things we are seeing get setup.
Deep Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I do like that most of Obama’s plans are structured around enhancing tech, keeping it fair, shaking out the cruft from these processes and getting people’s greedy hands off of open services like the internet and protecting that opportunity for the people; which will allow them to grow and thrive.
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