House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.,...

May 6, 2014 |Capitol Hill

House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., will address net neutrality issues Wednesday, she said in a news release. She plans a Google Hangout discussion on the FCC’s proposed new net neutrality rules at 6:30 p.m. The panel will include Republican former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, content delivery network CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince and Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick. Eshoo had issued a statement last month stating her fear that new FCC rules would “not do enough” to protect net neutrality. Several people have already posed questions on the Google Hangout page (http://bit.ly/RlMKFK): “What is holding up the FCC classifying internet providers as common carriers and access as a Title II telecommunications service??” one person asked.