Senators Winfield, Formica, and Representative Reed, my name is Gigi Sohn, and I have been an advocate for open, affordable and democratic communications networks for nearly 30 years. I am currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown Law and a Mozilla Fellow. I served as Counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler from 2013-2016. In 2015 had the privilege of helping to enact the strongest ever network neutrality rules under the strongest legal authority – Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. Thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony in support of SB 2.

Why Net Neutrality is Vital to an Open Internet

The creators of the Internet intended that this network of networks be neutral – that control be at the ends of the network, with no gatekeepers in the middle picking winners and losers. In this way, the Internet is completely different from communications networks like broadcasting and cable. Those are top-down systems where a gatekeeper controls what you see and when you see it.

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