Is Hillary Abandoning Net Neutrality?

Unfortunately, Net Neutrality won't be a make-or-break campaign issue, even if it should be. For most voters, it's a fairly heady concept, perhaps so difficult supporters worry frontrunner Hillary Clinton is backing away from it altogether.

Their concern is not without merit. John Edwards and Chris Dodd have mentioned it along their campaign trails. Last night at the Googleplex, Barack Obama sounded the Net Neutrality battle cry with this rhetorical gem:

"I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. Because once providers start to privilege some applications or web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out, and we all lose. The Internet is perhaps the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mW1qccn8k

In fact, Obama is making technology a central part of his plans for Executive office, revealing yesterday

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