One year ago, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered his first
major speech on Network Neutrality — the top issue on President Obama’s technology policy
platform. In the speech at the Brookings Institution, Genachowski warned that without the
fundamental protection of Net Neutrality, “We could see the Internet’s doors shut to entrepreneurs, the
spirit of innovation stifled, a full and free flow of information compromised.”
He also noted: “If we wait too long to preserve a free and open Internet, it will be too late.”
The FCC followed by launching a detailed rulemaking process on open Internet policy last October,
but since then the agency has yet to take any decisive action or indicate when it plans to resolve this
issue.