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March 12, 2008

Chairman Ed Markey Talks Net Neutrality w/ YouTube Phenoms OK Go

Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) of the House Internet and Telecommunications subcommittee has made his own Youtube video-- it's an interview, not a dance routine, with two members of the band OK Go, which made it big with their music video (38 million hits and counting) featuring the band moving around on a series of treadmills. According to the interview, without network neutrality, or Internet freedom from gatekeeper control by the phone and cable companies (Markey calls them "communications colossi"), that video would never had been so successful. Indeed, Internet innovations including Youtube itself and Myspace and Facebook might never have occurred had corporate gatekeepers controlled access to and innovation on the Internet. Kudos to the band for lobbying on Capitol Hill for Internet freedom.

Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at March 12, 2008 05:55 PM


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