FCC: Toothless Regulator or Cop on the Beat?
Does the FCC have the authority to enforce its Network Neutrality principles? Or to refashion the Universal Service Fund to promote broadband adoption? Or to protect consumer privacy and promote competition?
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw a huge legal roadblock in the path of the FCCs National Broadband Plan and President Obamas promise to preserve a non-discriminatory, open Internet with its ruling this month that the Commission lacks the authority to prevent cable giant Comcast from blocking certain peer-to-peer applications.
Consumer groups and many companies argue that the FCC should reclassify Internet access as a common carrier telecom service and regulate it lightly but as needed. Internet Service Providers and free market advocates argue the FCC cannot and should not justify regulation under traditional common carrier principles and authority.
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/fcc_debate
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May 9th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
The FCC has …
The FCC has outlived it’s usefulness! It’s time to disband the FCC control FREAKS!!!
GET OUT AND VOTE WITH A VENGEANCE ON NOVEMBER 2ND!!!
May 9th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
The FCC needs to …
The FCC needs to keep its claws off our internet! The USA gov’t is run by Communists!