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: GamePolitics.comFranken: 'Net Neutrality the First Amendment Issue of Our Time'
By james_fudge
Minnesota Senator and former Saturday Night Live Writer Al Franken told a gathering at the Netroots Nation conference on Sunday in Las Vegas that net neutrality is "the First Amendment issue of our time." In a speech before a packed house Franken said that the issues threaten to rewrite the basic rules of the internet.
"Imagine if what is happening with television, where an independent producer can't get a show on the air unless a network owns a piece of it, were to happen with the internet," he told the crowd. "There would be no next YouTube or Twitter. There would only be what the R&D departments at the few megaconglomerates could invent and profit from."
Franken also called the Comcast-NBCU deal "the first domino" in creating mega conglomerates, and gave some examples of other companies that might merge together to control the information we get in our daily lives on the Internet and on TV: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).
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