American Commitment has gathered 2.4 million letters from...
American Commitment has gathered 2.4 million letters from constituents asking Capitol Hill lawmakers to stop what it says is the FCC attempt to “impose regulations on the Internet,” the free market-oriented group said in a news release Tuesday. “A Washington…
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takeover of the Internet would be disastrous for free speech, commerce, and the future of the Internet as a sphere of innovation,” said American Commitment President Phil Kerpen in a statement. House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., also issued a statement welcoming the letters as part of the net neutrality debate: “We have said all along that these rules continue to be a solution in search of a problem. We will continue working to get government out of the way in our effort to create jobs, boost the economy, and spur innovation.” The group had included a form letter at StopInternetRegulation.org, which said it would send a petition to the FCC as well as to the sender’s relevant member of Congress. “The unregulated Internet is probably the greatest success story of the century,” said the form letter, which does not explicitly mention net neutrality. “Tens of billions of private dollars pour into its networks every year, even in a bad economy. The only reason to change this is to appease a small left-wing political faction that is ideologically obsessed with government control over the economy.”