Backbone Quote by Rick Boucher

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

— Ajit Pai

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might…

— Franklin Foer

The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it…

— Thomas Nolle

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

We see this in legislations such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, just to name a few. All of these legislations have…

— Peter Sunde

In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision…

— Ajit Pai

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation -…

— Ajit Pai

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the…

— Mary Bono

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

— Raymond Kethledge

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most…

— Stewart Dalzell

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

— Marvin Ammori