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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 3): The FCC’s Disdain for Markets

by Wayne Crews on August 21, 2013 · 0 comments  in Deregulate to Stimulate, Economy, Regulation, Tech & Telecom
(Note: On September 9, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s challenge of the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2010 Order on “Preserving the Free and Open Internet.” This series explores fundamental issues at stake.)
Public policy as a rule forgets we are not immortal, that rulemakers are not omniscient.
Net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) contribution to this conceit, forgets that not every network has been built yet, not every company yet created, and that the networks used and business models deployed by our descendants need not resemble or be managed like those of today.
In the vision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), cyberspace shall not solely occupy the realm of markets and trade; rather, Internet users have entitlements while the very benefactors who help make the net possible in the first place are not thanked but have obligations…..ToRead More……

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