by Matthew Lasar Mar 10 2008 - 8:29pm Ars Technica story
Speaking at Stanford University Law School on Friday, Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin offered a rough draft of how the FCC will deal with the controversy over Comcast's interference with P2P applications. Martin told his audience that he found Comcast's behavior "troubling" and that the agency is "ready, willing, and able" to take action on the problem, which could be a ominous sign for the cable giant.
"These issues are not only important on the domestic side, in terms of entrepreneurship and potential innovation that occurs in the United States," Martin told the gathering, "but that they also send an important message from the international perspective in terms of the message that we've been sending out that the Internet should be an important tool for democracy and empowering individual users on a going forth basis."
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