ATR — The FCC Has Left the Internet Alone for… 25 Years and Counting
The organization Free Press has placed a haunting clock on their blog claiming that for the past 23 or so days the Internet has been left unregulated. Oh, the humanity! The problem is the clock is off by a little over 25 years. That’s when the first dot-com address was purchased and the Internet began its basically unregulated tenure. And I think it’s fair to say the Web has done quite well for itself since that time.
Free Press is referring to the day this month that a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the Federal Communication Commission has absolutely no authority under current law to regulate the Internet with seemingly benign “Net Neutrality” rules. But since this was the first time the FCC tried to lay down its heavy regulatory hand, it’s not like the Commission had any authority to do it before the court ruling. There is no change of precedent here. For the past 23 days, the law of the land is as it’s been for the past 25 years.
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- DC Appeals Court: FCC has no power to regulate Net neutrality — CNET
- No Thanks, Net Nannies — Peter Suderman
- David Harsanyi: As there is no real problem with the Internet, it’s not surprising that some of our top minds have been working diligently on a solution
- Wall Street Journal – The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom
