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>> Today the Commission takes up a matter of considerable importance in its ongoing effort to maximize innovation and investment in our communications networks while advancing the interests of all Internet users.
>> More and more Americans depend on the Internet every day, at home, at work, in school, at our desks and on the move. The Internet connects us to our family and friends, to the universe of knowledge and to the workings of our nation’s democracy.
>> An open Internet is, perhaps as much as anything else, “the great equalizer.” It allows people with innovative ideas to succeed on the merit of those ideas. It also provides a voice to those who are often not afforded one.
>> Smaller businesses can compete despite not being firmly established or well financed on day one. The quality of the product or opinion stands for itself, and consumers are the ultimate arbiters of which businesses thrive at the end of the day.
>> By definition, the Internet—a global network of networks—is a “Wiki” environment, which we all pay for, share and shape. Since it was opened up for public use, as a free society we have worked hard to ensure that the Internet remains robust, safe and open.
>> Also, since its inception, uncounted dedicated souls have worked to ensure that the Internet works, period.
>> We as regulators, we as businesses, we as users—all of us—have an historic obligation to maintain the freedom of the Net. I have advocated long and hard for the Commission to establish a mechanism to ensure that
>> consumers have continued access to a vibrant, open Internet—an Internet that was born on openness, thrived on openness, and depends on openness to realize its potential.
>> I hope for a broad and substantive participation in this proceeding, so we will have a solid record that will provide us with a complete and accurate understanding of the Internet ecosystem.
>> The notice and draft rules also reflect a set of conceptual commitments that I fully endorse. First, the goal is and must remain, without compromise, preserving a free and open Internet.
>> Any rules we adopt must preserve our freedom to connect, to communicate and to create; that is the wonder of the open Internet.