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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 5): The Fallacies Motivating Net Neutrality

by Wayne Crews on August 23, 2013 · 0 comments
 (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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