President Barack Obama reiterated his support for net...
President Barack Obama reiterated his support for net neutrality Friday. “It’s something that I've cared deeply about ever since I ran for office,” Obama said during a Google Plus Hangout. “My campaign was empowered by a free and open Internet…
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and the ability for citizens all across this country to engage and create and find new ways and new tools to mobilize themselves. A lot of that couldn’t be done if there were a lot of commercial barriers and roadblocks. I've been a strong supporter of net neutrality.” As is FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, Obama added. He was responding to a question about the mid-January U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruling that struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules. But the FCC and Wheeler are “looking at all the options at their disposal,” potential appeals and potential rulemaking, “in order to continue to vindicate the notion of a free and open Internet.” Obama can’t “meddle in the decisionmaking” of the FCC now that his FCC nominees are in place, he added. The Obama administration will continue to support net neutrality principles despite a “lot of technical issues” being worked through, he said. The “good news” in the court ruling is that the court affirmed the FCC can “regulate this space,” he said. He mentioned the potential for “other tools that would stand up to court scrutiny.”