Sen. Brian Schatz: Expect record-breaking resistance to ‘net neutrality’ rollback

Published April 27, 2017 5:23pm ET



The top Democrat on an Internet-focused panel, Sen. Brian Schatz, expects a record-setting public comment period will take aim at a proposal to dismantle “net neutrality” Internet regulations.

“My instinct is they have no idea how outraged people are about to be, or the volume and velocity and passion of the public comments that are going to come flowing in,” Schatz, who is the ranking member of the Democrat Commerce Subcommittee on Communications Technology, Innovation and the Internet, told TechCrunch.

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