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CA. GOP Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina Against Net Neutrality

By james_fudge

California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has taken a position on net neutrality that shouldn't come as a shock to anyone: she opposes it. This is in sharp contrast to her opponent, incumbent democrat senator Barbara Boxer, who has been pushing the FCC to get to work on reclassifying broadband under Title II.

This is not a shocking or controversial position for the former CEO of Hewlett Packard; net neutrality is a divisive issue that falls among partisan lines: Democrats tend to support it, and Republicans tend to be against it. The only other position to take is the one taken by the Electric Frontier Foundation, which trust neither government or the private sector to do net neutrality right (read this little bit from August 10 on the Google Verizon proposals).

"The principle sounds fantastic, but the principle is not the problem," Fiorina said while at the Technology Policy Institute's conference in Aspen, Colo. "The problem is how companies and regulatory bodies are trying to translate that principle into policy, which would have a bad effect." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).