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FCC Commissioner Michael Copps stressed the need to maintain an open Internet and cited progess in the push for broadband expansion and adoption. An open Internet is key in leading the international community, Copps said Tuesday at a preliminary event…
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for the State of the Net conference of the Congressional Internet Caucus. “We are right to worry about where the path will take us if we allow unreasonable discrimination on the net,” he said. “We cannot preach tolerance to nations around the world while allowing those who provide the vital link to the online world to be intolerant. Broadband is coming to be seen for what it really is: the great enabler. And how well we enable it to enable us will spell the difference between America just muddling through, or opening the door to many more years of U.S. prosperity and world leadership.” Copps called for high bandwidth and enough spectrum to expand the nation’s broadband inventory. “Puny pipes are not going to carry America where it needs to go,” he said. A truly open Internet requires “the vision to build networks that are as robust as our national needs.” Copps said one challenge is ensuring that the Internet can support the information infrastructure that promotes democracy and another is “stemming the hemorrhage of traditional media journalism.” There are “signs that the news and information journalism America relied on for so long is failing us today,” he said. One day the Internet will “open wide avenues to support the kind of in-depth journalism I'm talking about."