FCC Chair Proposes New Rules of the Internet Road

FCC Chair Julius Genachowshi has proposed new “draft rules of the road to preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet.” In his talk of December 1, he notes that his “proposed rules of the road are rooted in ideas first articulated by Republican Chairmen Michael Powell and Kevin Martin, and endorsed in a unanimous FCC policy statement in 2005. Similar proposals have been supported in Congress on a bipartisan basis. And they are consistent with President Obama’s commitment to ‘keep the Internet as it should be — open and free.'”