Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.