Mark Cooper Internet Quotations

The public clearly understands the importance of open, nondiscriminatory access to the Internet from network owners.

As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,

These results show that although consumers believe network owners should provide unfettered access to the Internet, few believe they'll do so unless required by law. Our findings that consumers view the Internet as an important communications and information service only underscore the danger of discriminatory network practices.

It's more of the same, and the same is an ever-tightening oligopoly at the heart of the cable TV broadband Internet industry.

The Internet is already an important avenue for participation in society.