Big Cable: Net neutrality violates ISP 1st Amendment rights

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Speaking before the Media Institute in Virginia on Tuesday, the leading voice of the cable industry challenged the idea that net neutrality regulations enhance free speech. Quite the contrary, warned Kyle McSlarrow, CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, “the First Amendment is framed as a shield for citizens, not a sword for government.” True enough, the First Amendment “promotes democratic values,” McSlarrow added, “but it does so best by freeing citizens from government regulation of their speech, not by regulating it.”