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Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

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Ron Wyden
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 3
Basketball Player
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United States Senator
Wichita
Kansas
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