That echoes Powell's comments in an interview with CNET News.com last fall, in which he said there was no clear need for a "government regulatory response" to head off the hypothetical threat of cable providers favoring some sites over others. In his speech this week to the University of Colorado School of Law, however, Powell added that broadband providers should preserve customers' freedom to run applications of their choice and use the hardware of their choice, as long as it did not involve theft of service.
FCC chairman spurns Net cable regulation
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Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET. You can e-mail him or follow him on Twitter as declanm. Declan previously was a reporter for Time and the Washington bureau chief for Wired and wrote the Taking Liberties section and Other People's Money column for CBS News' Web site.