senatorwyden

Excited to hear what the Reddit community thinks of the proposal Rep. Lofgren and I are working on to start to limit the overreach that has resulted from the CFAA. Looking forward to taking the lead in the Senate.

Lack of ISP competition is the core market failure that makes enforceable net neutrality rules necessary.

A lot of progress is being made, but it wasn't very long ago that the Internet was referred to up here as a series of tubes. To a great extent because of the incredible outpouring of grassroots activism in PIPA and SOPA. Your support in that effort has caused many of my colleagues to get more deeply involved in these issues and that's a great compliment to redditors and the rest of the netroots.

Yes, the answer is yes. The only way to address threats to net neutrality now is with enforceable rules, but in the long run, what would be best for the Internet and best for consumers is more competition. That's why the currently proposed mergers are so concerning, and why developments like Google Fiber and other build-overs are very important. There is a correlation between the lack of competition and the need for the government to intervene in markets to protect competition.

Wanted to drop in and say THANK YOU. It looks like CISA won’t be up until the fall and it is because defenders of privacy and advocates for good cybersecurity policy made their voices heard. Keep up the pressure – whether it’s SOPA, PIPA, CISA, net neutrality, or mass surveillance, when we speak up we can stop bad policy that undermines the open internet and makes America less secure.