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Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team

Posted by Soulskill on from the setting-the-table dept.

circleid writes "The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, member of the board of directors of ICANN, and OneWebDay founder, as well as Kevin Werbach, former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual Supernova technology conference, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team's review of the FCC. 'Both are highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy, and they've both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration's telecom policies in the past year.' The choice of the duo strongly signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom policy-making that's characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC." Reuters has a related story about Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who plans to introduce net neutrality legislation in January.

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Re:AT&T's flawed reasoning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    RE:"regulation has to exist to ensure that the monopolies aren't abused."

    you got that backwards, it is the monopolies that do the abusing

  2. Oh yeah that was brilliant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Worked absolute wonders, I agree. Deregulated us right into the Second Great Depression.