{"id":6697,"date":"2019-03-06T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/press-release\/public-knowledge-welcomes-consensus-markey-doyle-bill-to-restore-net-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:07:24","slug":"public-knowledge-welcomes-consensus-markey-doyle-bill-to-restore-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-welcomes-consensus-markey-doyle-bill-to-restore-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Knowledge Welcomes Consensus Markey-Doyle Bill to Restore Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) introduced the Save the Internet Act to restore the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s 2015 Open Internet Order establishing net neutrality rules. Chairman Pai\u2019s FCC <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/fcc-abandons-consumer-protection-responsibility-with-net-neutrality-repeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repealed these rules<\/a> in 2017, ignoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/16\/6257887\/fcc-net-neutrality-3-7-million-comments-made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">millions of Americans<\/a> who support net neutrality. Public Knowledge welcomes the bill and applauds Sen. Markey and Rep. Doyle for heeding the wishes of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>The following can be attributed to Chris Lewis, Vice President of Public Knowledge:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Markey, Rep. Doyle and allies have put forward a simple, consensus approach to restoring strong net neutrality protections, and we are happy to support their proposal. This proposal is simple yet strong because it relies on restoring the FCC rules that were <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/dc-circuit-court-upholds-open-internet-rules-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upheld in court twice<\/a>. The 2015 rules were carefully crafted to have a light touch on broadband through its many forbearances. It also avoids many of the pitfalls of other weak proposals this year that ask Americans to trade away important consumer protections at the FCC in exchange for only pieces of these net neutrality protections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Markey-Doyle proposal is a consensus approach not only because it has broad bipartisan support, but it has support from a diverse and broad array of industry, nonprofit, racial justice, and other organizations. The 2015 rules were supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicconsultation.org\/united-states\/overwhelming-bipartisan-public-opposition-to-repealing-net-neutrality-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">86 percent of Americans in polls<\/a> including 80 percent or higher from Republicans and independents. They were upheld in the Senate in a bipartisan vote and garnered bipartisan support in the House last year before the year ended. The 2015 rules were supported by technology companies large and small who are driving innovation in our economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules were also supported by main street small businesses of all varieties who worry about being able to compete in a free market online. Rural communities need these protections to ensure monopoly broadband providers don&#8217;t use interconnection points to charge rural communities more than their suburban and urban peers. Activists of all political stripes and small content creators rely on these rules to have a fair chance to reach their audience online without paying extra to deliver content. Only in Washington, where well-funded lobbyists for big cable and broadband providers roam the halls of Congress by the hundreds, do we hear complaints about these common-sense rules of the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that while these rules have been repealed, broadband providers have <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/broadband-providers-are-quietly-taking-advantage-of-an-internet-without-net-neutrality-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slowly and carefully moved to erode the concepts of net neutrality<\/a> in their business practices and their advocacy in Washington, D.C. Now is the time for Congress to respond to the overwhelming call for restoring net neutrality rules, and the Markey-Doyle proposal is an excellent, consensus path forward. Every American should <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/tell-congress-to-save-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demand that their Senators and Representatives vote to approve it immediately<\/a> before further harm can be done to the consumer choices and a free market online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on why Americans need strong net neutrality protections, please view our recent blog post, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/broadband-providers-are-quietly-taking-advantage-of-an-internet-without-net-neutrality-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broadband Providers Are Quietly Taking Advantage of an Internet Without Net Neutrality Protections<\/a>.\u201d You may also view our <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/public-knowledge-dc-circuit-intervenor-net-neutrality-filing\/\">intervenors\u2019 brief<\/a> for more details on why Public Knowledge strongly opposes the FCC\u2019s net neutrality repeal \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-tells-d-c-circuit-fcc-illegally-repealed-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in court<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) introduced the Save the Internet Act to restore the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s 2015 Open Internet Order establishing net neutrality rules. Chairman Pai\u2019s FCC repealed these rules in 2017, ignoring the millions of Americans who support net neutrality. Public Knowledge welcomes the bill and applauds Sen. Markey and Rep. Doyle for heeding the wishes of the American people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-net-neutrality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public Knowledge Welcomes Consensus Markey-Doyle Bill to Restore Net Neutrality - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. 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