{"id":88337,"date":"2018-01-30T05:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88337"},"modified":"2018-01-27T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:30:10","slug":"brindisi-pushes-legislation-to-restore-net-neutrality-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88337","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi pushes legislation to restore Net Neutrality in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Brindisi: The Internet should not become a toll road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Repealing Net Neutrality could drive up internet costs here at home and kill access for people and business; Brindisi-sponsored bill will prohibit internet service providers who refuse to be fair from doing business with New York state agencies and mark a \u2018red line\u2019 for bad actors<\/em><\/p>\n

Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica announced today that he will both push and co-sponsor legislation to return Net Neutrality to New York. The Brindisi-backed bill would require Internet providers doing business in the State of New York to certify they don\u2019t slow or speed up the web traffic of certain people or businesses at the expense\u2014or gain\u2014of others.<\/p>\n

Brindisi says his push is a direct result of the federal government egregiously voting to do away with Net Neutrality while setting the stage for a \u2018haves and have nots\u2019 Internet. Brindisi says the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s recent decision to end net neutrality will stifle innovation, impact small businesses, and hurt students and families across our area. Brindisi made his announcement at the thINCubator, a business development center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe internet should not be a toll road, don\u2019t we have enough of those?\u201d\u00a0said Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi.\u00a0\u201cUnder this plan we not only tell the internet providers they can\u2019t drop internet tolls on New Yorkers, but we protect the free and open internet here at home\u2014and we send a national message. I\u2019ve already taken on the Internet providers once and I am here to say: I will do it again. First they want our privacy, and now they are coming for our hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brindisi said a classic example of the problem with the federal government axing Net Neutrality is that entrepreneurs or small business start-ups that require a lot of bandwidth may soon have to pay more for it, and in many cases that could have a real effect on their future growth.\u00a0 Brindisi added that public libraries pride themselves on providing free and open access to information for everyone, and giving Internet Service Providers the ability to charge for extra bandwidth or prioritize content jeopardizes that mission, and may put some content out of reach of those who cannot afford to pay for it. \u00a0Allowing large corporations–Internet Service Providers–to control the content the public can access, and to limit some service only to customers who can pay for it would have major repercussions, Brindisi urged. He says currently, major ISP\u2019s with business before the state include Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and Spectrum.<\/p>\n

Brindisi says legislation he is sponsoring\u00a0(A.8802)\u00a0directs all state agencies and municipalities to stop doing business with Internet Service Providers that are not net neutral.\u00a0 It also gives the Public Service Commission the authority to regulate ISP\u2019s on issues involving Net Neutrality.<\/p>\n

Brindisi said while Governor Cuomo signed an Executive Order\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0requiring ISP\u2019s to follow net neutrality in order to be eligible for state contracts, his legislation is still needed because Executive Orders can be challenged in court, and a law cannot. The legislation is broader than the Executive Order, including requiring ISP\u2019s doing business with public school districts and local governments. A spokesman for Governor Cuomo said yesterday he supports the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unprecedented control over the vital resource that the Internet represents is ripe for abuse. At particular disadvantage are small businesses, tech startups, and new content providers, who will not be able to pay service providers to have their data carried at full speed and bandwidth to consumers.\u00a0 Contrary to statements by the FCC, repealing Net Neutrality will only benefit large, wealthy corporations, and will stifle growth and innovation in the tech sector,\u201d\u00a0said Anthony Martino, Director of the Northeast Cybersecurity and Forensics Center at Utica College.<\/p>\n

“As New York looks to attract and retain our top talent, support innovative new companies and foster a culture of entrepreneurship, protecting net neutrality becomes a vital piece of our economic infrastructure. It will ensure innovative businesses can develop and scale their companies on a level playing field, and also continue to allow our small businesses to sell their products and services around the globe without unnecessary barriers. Perhaps most importantly, it will make sure that access to all aspects of the web is available to all,\u201d\u00a0said Ryan Miller, Director of the thINCubator in Utica.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you walk into our member libraries, you will often see a number of people on the Internet.\u00a0 A recent Siena College poll showed that 25 percent of people in lower-income households depend on the library as their main source of accessing the Internet.\u00a0 These are people searching for jobs, paying bills, keeping up with the news, or doing research for a class project.\u00a0 Libraries have always provided access to information for everyone, regardless of background, and in recent years that has included Internet access.\u00a0 Ending net neutrality jeopardizes that, and puts students and low-income residents at a disadvantage.\u00a0 I support Assemblyman Brindisi\u2019s plan to restore net neutrality in New York,\u201d said Wanda Bruchis, Executive Director of the Mid York Library System in Utica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brindisi: The Internet should not become a toll road Repealing Net Neutrality could drive up internet costs here at home and kill access for people and business; Brindisi-sponsored bill will prohibit internet service providers who refuse to be fair from doing business with New York state agencies and mark a \u2018red line\u2019 for bad actors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mYN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14.jpg?fit=490%2C700&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}