Vint Cerf, Steve Wozniak, and other tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an ‘imminent threat’

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Monday, 11 December 2017 ()
Vint Cerf, Steve Wozniak, and other tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an ‘imminent threat’A group of early internet and computing pioneers have called on the Senate’s FCC oversight committee to censure next week’s net neutrality vote. In an open letter to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, 21 signatories said that FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s “rushed and technically incorrect” plan to repeal net neutrality “is an imminent threat to the internet we worked so hard to create.” They want the committee to ask Pai to cancel the vote, which is currently scheduled for December 14th.

The list includes some of the people responsible for creating the internet as we know it. That includes Steven Bellovin, a former FTC chief technologist who helped develop Usenet; Tim Berners-Lee,...
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