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Friday, August 30, 2013

Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 9): How to Expand Consumer Choice and Access to Content

by Wayne Crews on August 29, 2013
The gravely flawed principles of the initial 2005 Policy Statement, now being promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the 2010 Order on Preserving the Free and Open Internet, claimed to enshrine the open and interconnected public Internet and uphold individuals’ ability to access the lawful content of their choice …and…connect their choice of legal devices.
Statements like this have the effect (perhaps unintended, but likely not) of improperly conflating political freedoms and contractual/economic freedoms, while potentially undermining all.
Rights, of course, describe the relation of an individual to the state, not to a commercial vendor.
Be that as it may, commerce is not a threat to democracy or the free flow of ideas; it is the enabler.
Consumer choice is created by, not threatened by, the existence of the producer.....To Read More....

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