Former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout and...
Former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout and running mate Timothy Wu, who created the term “net neutrality,” headlined a Free Press-sponsored rally in New York City’s City Hall Park Monday to urge the FCC to adopt strong net neutrality…
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rules. Teachout, who received 34 percent of the vote against Democratic incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said from now on “you shouldn’t be able to be a politician in New York state, let alone in this country” without taking a “strong, clear stand” against the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable (TWC) merger and in favor of net neutrality. Cuomo recently ordered the state’s Department of Public Service to investigate TWC’s Aug. 27 nationwide broadband outage as part of the state Public Service Commission’s review of Comcast/TWC, already seen to be a more aggressive review of the deal than has occurred in most other states (CD Aug 28 p16). Wu, currently a Columbia University law professor and a former Free Press chairman, praised New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other state politicians for “taking the right view” on net neutrality. Wu received 40 percent of the vote against Cuomo’s running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y.