Wait- I'm kind of confused how allowing an open internet stifles innovation, unless she's trying to say that no one will innovate without being handed a blank check and no rules by the government."For almost a century, our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access in and out of your home or business," Obama said in his statement. "That is why a phone call from a customer of one phone company can reliably reach a customer of a different one, and why you will not be penalized solely for calling someone who is using another provider. It is common sense that the same philosophy should guide any service that is based on the transmission of information — whether a phone call, or a packet of data."Industry quickly pushed back. CTIA-The Wireless Association called Obama's proposal a "gross overreaction" that would ignore other viewpoints."CTIA and its members are committed to delivering an open mobile Internet, but applying last century's public utility regulation to the dynamic mobile broadband ecosystem puts at risk the investment and innovation which characterizes America's world-leading $196 billion wireless industry," said the group's president and CEO, Meredith Attwell Baker.
In short, the President is right.
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