Reply #2: Um, Hillary has very strong ties to the telecom industry that is lobbying against net neutrality

[ClarkUSA]

Which is worrying to me.

Matt Stoller of Open Left, formerly of MyDD and previously not an Obama fan, has this to say:

'Both Edwards and Obama have made it clear they will break the power of the wireless gatekeepers, the telecom
lobbyists who gut our laws, and the Comcast traffic shaping tyrants. Clinton, though, has been a noted absence
in the debate about spectrum, mumbling about it incoherently at Yearlykos, and her plan for broadband was
written by the telcos and doesn't include net neutrality. She still hasn't come out clearly on retroactive immunity,
as her campaign's ties to telecom lobbyists are not trivial, and it looks from her possible FCC choices that her
administration would be a continuation of the Clinton-Bush years of media and telecom deregulation.

But don't take my word for it, take the word of Scott Cleland, the most notorious telecom shill, as he writes about
Clinton's 'innovation agenda':

Understandably, the glaring exclusion of net neutrality from the Senator's Innovation agenda -- after the radical
left's rhetoric claimed net neutrality was essential to "innovation" -- signals to me that the Senator and her
campaign have a pretty solid, practical and intuitive understanding of sound broadband policy.

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In the face of this set of challenges, Obama has thrown down a big gauntlet, policy-wise. He is pushing to break
up the wireless gatekeepers, net neutrality will be a strong priority in his administration, and open government
will allow citizens to generate new sources of political power.'

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