They created the legal foundation for real net neutrality safeguards, giving internet users the freedom to choose what they do, where they go and whom they connect with online.
And advertising rooms on the Internet without legal safeguards is great until the platform is used by gangsters and slum lords to drive families from their apartments and fleece tourists into spending their vacations under unsafe roofs.
The prospect of US legislation prompted companies like Yahoo to seek a voluntary path to safeguard internet freedoms.
To become the nation's first genuine tech president, a candidate must also champion internet policies that safeguard users and ensure the network's survival and continued growth.
Among the best-known publicly traded incubators are CMGI of Andover, Mass., and the Internet Capital Group and Safeguard Scientifics, both of Wayne, Pa.
John Scott, the founder and CEO of XL Vision, an incubator in Sebastian, Fla., that counts Internet holding company Safeguard Scientifics sfe as its main investors, warns that the biggest pitfall facing European incubators is lack of discipline.
While the Chinese government says the legislation will "safeguard" Internet users from defamation, fraud and identity theft, service providers and many netizens have complained that the proposed regulations are yet another move by the Chinese government to restrict freedom of information.
Often, the Internet connections are safeguarded by easy-to-hack passwords. .
Despite this, Wales still described America as "a jurisdiction for things like freedom of speech, safeguards for internet companies".
The amendment, entitled "Protecting the essential freedom of the internet", calls for "additional safeguards for online freedom of speech to be in place".
