Sen. Ted Cruz is not done fighting net neutrality.
After Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said the Texas Republican doesn’t know what he’s talking about by opposing net neutrality, Cruz put together a short video to explain just what he knows.
In the 79-second clip released Monday, supported by the hashtag “#DontMessWithTheNet,” Cruz explains his case against government regulation of the internet, saying it inhibits innovation and freedom.
The video opens with Franken’s attack comments toward Cruz from his Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” — a clear rebuttal to Cruz’s Thursday op-ed in the Washington Post laying out the cons to net neutrality — and follows with clips from a speech Cruz gave last Friday in Austin, Texas, about net neutrality.
“We want a whole lot more of this,” Cruz says in the video, taking an iPhone out of his jacket pocket. “And a whole lot less of this,” he adds, pointing to a rotary phone, which he says was “frozen in place” by the Telecommunications Act of 1934.
“The innovation is happening without having to go to government regulators and say, ‘Mother, may I?'”
President Obama is pushing the Federal Communications Commission to change the way it regulates internet service providers. The FCC is an independent commission.
