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"I believe that net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time," declared Democratic Senator Al Franken at Thursday's public hearing on the Internet, held in his home state of Minnesota.
"Unless it's freedom of religion," he added, "which, until last week, I thought we had kind of worked out."
The audience at Minneapolis' South High School cracked up over Franken's reference to the Ground Zero Mosque slugfest. But this was a warm-up rally for their own cause,getting the Federal Communications Commission to pass rules that would partially reclassify ISPs as common carriers and apply various neutrality provision to their activities. Two Democratic members of the FCC also attended the event: Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn.
"We're standing at a precipice," warned Josh Silver of Free Press as he introduced Franken. "Despite the Internet's vital importance to our democracy, there are no laws on the books that ensure net neutrality."
