Obama Nominates Net Neutrality Backer for FCC Chief

Obama Nominates Net Neutrality Backer for FCC Chief

By Ryan Singel EmailMarch 03, 2009 | 7:58:46 PMCategories: FCC

President Barack Obama nominated on Tuesday Julius Genachowski – a lawyer, techie and former venture capitalist – to head the Federal Communications Commission.

The nomination of Genachowski as chairman was widely anticipated and quickly applauded by proponents of net neutrality, who hope an Obama FCC will move decisively to limit what telecoms can and cannot do with internet traffic on their networks.

Genachowski, a former Harvard law classmate of Obama’s, served as Obama’s top tech campaign advisor and helped shape the campaign’s embrace of having the government create and enforce net neutrality rules.

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