Net neutrality would trade a supporter for an opponent if...
Net neutrality would trade a supporter for an opponent if former HP CEO Carly Fiorina takes the seat of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in this November’s election. Political analysts consider Boxer’s seat to be at risk, and the telecom industry…
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is watching the race closely (CD Aug 20 p5). “Carly opposes net neutrality and thinks government intervention and more regulation will not be helpful where the Internet is concerned,” a Fiorina campaign spokeswoman told us this week. In a speech last week to the Technology Policy Institute, Fiorina said it would be “bad public policy” for the FCC to reclassify broadband transport under Title II of the Communications Act. Meanwhile, a Boxer spokeswoman told us the Senate Commerce Committee member “strongly supports net neutrality and she believes the FCC has a role to play in ensuring an open Internet.” Boxer hasn’t commented specifically on reclassification. Boxer doesn’t plan to comment on that or any other proposal related to the FCC’s broadband authority until they are finalized for FCC rulemaking, a Senate staffer told us. In the 109th and 110th Congresses, Boxer was an original cosponsor of bills by Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, that would have given the FCC enforcement authority over net neutrality principles.