Sen. Ted Cruz is continuing to push back against President Obama’s call for net neutrality.
“The threats from Washington to stifle freedom, entrepreneurship and creativity online have never been greater,” the Texas Republican wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post on Wednesday. “Washington politicians want the money, and they want more and more control over our speech,” he continued.
It is up to a bipartisan Congress, Cruz wrote, to “preserve America’s leadership role in developing the future of the Internet.”
A Cruz tweet calling net neutrality “Obamacare for the internet” went viral on Monday.
Cruz has long sparred with Obama on the issue of net neutrality, becoming one of the outspoken voices for the Republican Party on the issue.
The Federal Communication Commission was set to make a decision on net neutrality at its December meeting (the last of the year), but as of Wednesday, FCC spokeswoman Kim Hart told The Register it would not happen.
Cruz, along with everyone else, will have to wait until the new year at the earliest to learn the fate of the open internet.
