Obama taps net neut for FCC post

Wed, Mar 4th, 2009

As expected, President Barack Obama named former Harvard law classmate Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission.

And the net neuts are chuffed. Genachowski was Obama's chief technology adviser during his election campaign, and he helped pen the Barack Obama Technology and Innovation Plan (PDF), which began by telling the world that the now Prez hopes to ensure "the Full and Free Exchange of Information through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets."

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