Plan should slow investment

Rocky Mountain News
January 18, 2007

Please direct all media inquiries to:
Hands off the Internet
Post Office Box 3840
Arlington, VA 22203-0840
(800) 619-5268
media@handsoff.org

To the editor:

You are right to oppose new federal regulations on the Internet, but your editorial missed two important reasons this is such a bad idea. First, Net users are increasingly seeing online delays caused by surging use of video downloads and other data-rich applications. Meanwhile, spam and spyware remain out of control. A federal law that mandates "neutrality" would stop Internet providers’ ability to prioritize legitimate content that consumers genuinely want.

Second, neutrality regulations would be a serious roadblock to bringing the benefits of high-speed Internet (including distance education and medical specialties) to rural Coloradans. As a senior labor union official said recently, so-called Net neutrality regulations would interfere with vital upgrades and deployment, putting rural Americans further and further behind.

Sincerely,

Christopher Wolf
Mike McCurry
Co-Chairs, Hands Off the Internet coalition

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