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Most Recent PostsA Careful, Extended Debate
Writing at the Huffington Post, Robert J. Shapiro — former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs under President Clinton — examines the FCC’s plans to regulate the Internet under Title II:
The Internet’s operations raise legitimate issues for regulators, who should work to ensure, for example, that consumers’ rights are fully respected in the online environment. Yet, given the enormous stakes for all of us in the vast range of innovations being driven by broadband service and its applications, sweeping new rules for the Internet should not come by regulatory fiat, but only after careful and extended debate by both the Administration and the Congress.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
