Legal Niches

Daley's AT&T Ties Worry Net Neutrality Supporters

By james_fudge

Incoming White House Chief of Staff William Daley's history in the telecom industry has some supporters of the FCC's net neutrality rules concerned, according to a report in The Hill. Dailey served as president of SBC Communications before it acquired AT&T and took the 'smaller' company's name. Saying that AT&T was a smaller company tells you just how big SBC really was.

One of those supporters is Free Press:

"With Daley at his side, how long will it be before Obama caves?" Tim Karr, Free Press campaign director, wrote in the Huffington Post on Saturday.

Opponents of net neutrality, including Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), think that Dailey's influence in the White House on this particular issue is a good thing: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 11, 2011 (boomark / email).