Online Writers Guild

The fol­low­ing is Alan Khazei’s answer to our ques­tion about net neu­tral­ity. It was taken from NECN’s broad­cast and tran­scribed by us for pub­li­ca­tion here on our site. This was made pos­si­ble by NECNs use of Twit­ter (Thanks @NECN!)

OnlineWrit­ers

Q: How do you see your­self con­tribut­ing to our tech­no­log­i­cal future. For instance are you for net neutrality?

Alan Khazei

A: I am absolutely for net neu­tral­ity. The inter­net is an extra­or­di­nary inven­tion that can empower peo­ple, make our democ­racy work bet­ter, share infor­ma­tion, and facil­i­tate small busi­ness entre­pre­neurs. We have to have net neu­tral­ity, we should not let big com­pa­nies be able to dom­i­nate the inter­net and con­trol it.

I will fight for this.

Larry Lessig who has been the leader on this is a good friend of mine, sup­port­ing my cam­paign, I know the peo­ple who are dri­ving this, and ill fight hard for it.

Again, Its the PACs, the lob­by­ists, and the spe­cial inter­ests who are try­ing to con­trol the inter­net, and its the great­est tool of democ­racy yet to be invented, besides the very foun­da­tion of cre­at­ing Amer­ica so I will be fight­ing for it.

We’re glad Mr. Khazei is as well informed as he is and hopes he con­tin­ues to have this per­spec­tive and insight if he makes it to Washington.

Dis­claimer: We’re not endors­ing him yet, but we sure like what he has to say.