That Washington
Follow-Up: "Do You Understand What Net Neutrality Is?"
The Seattle Times has posted video of its editorial board interview
with Sen. Patty Murray and Dino Rossi.
It's a must watch (and Times reporter Jim Brunner has a report on the highlights here.)
I wiill post a set of follow-up questions on Monday that both candidates need to be asked.
But the Times beat me to it with a follow-up question of their own during the interview itself about net neutrality (the concept that ISPs can't favor some content over others). [Go to the 40-minute mark.]
After Rossi is first asked if he supports empowering the FCC to regulate the Internet (in the same way it regulates cable) to enforce net neutrality, he looks a bit baffled and is then asked: "Do you understand what net neutrality is?"
And listen, I get that a lot of people don't understand what net neutrality is. But Rossi totally flubs it. (And, by the way, a lot of people aren't running for U.S. Senate from a leading tech state like Washington either.)
"The idea that people would control [the Internet] would make me nervous, especially if the federal government were involved," he says, tacking to a catch-all GOP 9-iron.
Hilariously, the idea of net neutrality is to prevent big corporations from controlling content, not big government.
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It's a must watch (and Times reporter Jim Brunner has a report on the highlights here.)
I wiill post a set of follow-up questions on Monday that both candidates need to be asked.
But the Times beat me to it with a follow-up question of their own during the interview itself about net neutrality (the concept that ISPs can't favor some content over others). [Go to the 40-minute mark.]
After Rossi is first asked if he supports empowering the FCC to regulate the Internet (in the same way it regulates cable) to enforce net neutrality, he looks a bit baffled and is then asked: "Do you understand what net neutrality is?"
And listen, I get that a lot of people don't understand what net neutrality is. But Rossi totally flubs it. (And, by the way, a lot of people aren't running for U.S. Senate from a leading tech state like Washington either.)
"The idea that people would control [the Internet] would make me nervous, especially if the federal government were involved," he says, tacking to a catch-all GOP 9-iron.
Hilariously, the idea of net neutrality is to prevent big corporations from controlling content, not big government.
To plug in to PubliCola's running coverage of this issue start here or here.
