(Note: On
September 9, the U.S. 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.)
Net neutrality is one variant of government-backed
forced access to someone else’s property. So it is not a new notion, but one rooted in
discredited ideas of natural monopoly and a longing for common carriage. Natural monopoly is unseen in nature. But
monopolies are frequently created and officially sustained by governments
through such vehicles as exclusive franchises and regulatory “certificates of
convenience and necessity.”
In all the great network industries that cry out for
liberalzation but that attract misguided calls for forced access instead,
competition is outlawed, or was until recently illegal…..To Read More….
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