6 posts and columns on Senate Commerce Committee

Privacy Measure Draws Support

in News on March 17, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Sen. John Kerry, a senior Democrat, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday backed the Obama administration’s call for broad privacy legislation at a Senate hearing that also exposed hurdles to passing such a law.

White House to Push Privacy Bill

in News on March 16, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a “privacy bill of rights” to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.

Shocking Coincidence! Republicans, AT&T Unhappy With Proposed Network Neutrality Rules.

in News on September 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

That was fast. Just hours after Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, unveiled his open Internet proposal, a number of Republican senators stepped forward to oppose it. Arguing that Net Neutrality will “impede investment and innovation of new technologies,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), proposed an amendment to an Interior Department appropriations bill that would bar the FCC from using federal funds to implement the proposal.

Shocking Coincidence! Republicans, AT&T Unhappy With Proposed Network Neutrality Rules.

in News on September 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

That was fast. Just hours after Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, unveiled his open Internet proposal, a number of Republican senators stepped forward to oppose it. Arguing that Net Neutrality will “impede investment and innovation of new technologies,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), proposed an amendment to an Interior Department appropriations bill that would bar the FCC from using federal funds to implement the proposal.

Google to WSJ: I Got Yer Dumb Pipes Right Here…

in News on December 15, 2008 at 8:02 am PT

Ironic, isn’t it, that Google, one of Net neutrality’s staunchest advocates, has been approaching major cable and phone companies with a proposal that appears to violate the very tenets of that principle? How could a company that has argued tirelessly that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, suddenly reverse course and seek preferential treatment for its own traffic? Short answer: it didn’t.