Jeff Chester Quotes on Internet (6 Quotes)

Members from both sides of the aisle endorsed a plan which will permit cable and phone companies to construct 'pay as you surf, pay as you post' toll booths for the Internet.

For consumers in states like Michigan, you'll have fewer companies offering fewer services and you'll see rates for phone, video and the Internet continue to creep up. In the absence of strong regulation and safeguards this is a bad deal for competition and consumers.

This merger becomes a critical flash point in this growing concern about the future of the Internet in the United States.

This is the owner's manual that they're providing to the cable industry to monopolize the Internet.

AT and T wishes to be lord of the digital domain, able to impose a raft of tolls, fees and what they term 'monetization' strategies for the internet - whether it comes to us via wires or wireless devices.

Instead of the Internet reflecting what the federal courts not long ago called 'the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed,' it's now threatened to be reduced to what ATT called its private pipes.