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Cable |
Children's Television |
Fairness Doctrine |
Indecency |
Net Neutrality |
Spectrum Auctions |
| Joseph Biden (U.S. Senate, Delaware) |
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Biden has said he is relucant to write net neutrality rules into law until he sees real discrimination by big broadband incumbents (AT&T) against ISPs. |
| Sam Brownback (U.S. Senate, Kansas) |
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Participates in an
FCC task force on the impact of television on child obesity. |
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Sponsored the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act, which boosted broadcast indecency fines by a factor of ten, to $325,000 a fine.
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| Hillary Clinton (U.S. Senate, New York) |
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Supports net neutrality. Co-sponsor of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. |
| Christopher Dodd (U.S. Senate, Connecticuit) |
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Supports net neutrality. Co-sponsor of the Net Neutrality Act. |
| John Edwards (former U.S. Senator, North Carolina) |
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Has called on the Federal Communications Commission to set spectrum auction rules "that ensure that the airwaves benefit everyone, not just big companies." |
| Dennis Kucinich (House of Representatives, Ohio) |
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Supports the restoration of the policy, which would require broadcasters to strive for balanced coverage of controversial issues, and to offer citizens response time to controversial editorial positions. |
Voted against the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act. |
Early supporter of net neutrality. Voted against the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2002, which would have allowed big incumbents to offer broadband without any net neutrality provisions. |
| John McCain (U.S. Senate, Arizona) |
Has long supported FCC Chair Kevin Martin's "a la carte" position that consumers should be able to pick and choose which cable channels they buy, without having to purchase a huge package of channels. |
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Co-sponsored the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act. |
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Supports proposal to reserve an "E-Block" area of the spectrum for wholesale licensing for public safety broadband providers.
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| Barack Obama (United State Senate, Illinois) | |
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Supports net neutrality. |
| Mitt Romney (Former governor of Massachusetts) | |
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Cable |
Children's Television |
Fairness Doctrine |
Indecency |
Net Neutrality |
Spectrum Auctions |
