OPINION: New President, new rules?
By Paul Sweeting -- Video Business, 11/14/2008
NOV. 14 | Beyond its already-historic nature, the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States presages the most sweeping changes in the laws and regulations shaping the media and technology industries in at least a decade and perhaps longer.
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
The Obama campaign was famously the most technologically savvy in history, and President-elect Obama has made it clear he intends to continue his wired ways in the White House.
On Friday, for instance, the Obama transition team announced that the President’s traditional Saturday radio address will morph into a weekly tube-side chat on YouTube.
But the changes to the media landscape an Obama administration is likely to bring go way beyond cosmetics.
One of the biggest changes is likely to be on the issue of ’Net neutrality. In his position paper on technology and innovation policy issued during the campaign, Obama endorsed a very strong version of network neutrality.
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