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Wednesday, September 15
Via Broadcasting & Cable, the FCC’s deadline for the initial round of comments on its latest Notice of Inquiry is October 12. Reply comments are then due November 4.
Monday, June 28
The Hill offers some nuggets from last week’s congressional meeting on the FCC and Internet regulations:
The parties discussed what powers the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has over broadband service providers and whether it has enough authority to implement the National Broadband Plan, its strategy for expanding Internet access, according to sources in the meeting.
The participants also looked at what characteristics a possible net neutrality rule might have if targeted legislation were to be shaped, they said, but the usual disagreements on this remained intact.
The goal of this and subsequent meetings is to quickly find consensus on a “targeted broadband bill” that will define the FCC’s jurisdiction. The FCC is also holding meetings with Internet stakeholders.
Monday, June 07
The editorial board of the Chicago Tribune weighs in on the FCC and Internet regulations:
This decision introduces the prospect of tightening government clamps on a business sector that has thrived, attracting billions of dollars of investment. The FCC could ultimately meddle with online content, too. Genachowski says he has no intention of doing that. But there would be nothing to stop his FCC, or a future FCC, from stepping in under the rules that govern common carriers.
Friday, June 04
Add Sen. Olympia Snowe — a staunch net neutrality supporter — to the growing list of Senators and Representatives from both sides of the aisle who are against the FCC’s move to regulate the Internet under Title II. From The Hill:
Snowe said she supports the commission’s goal of keeping the Internet open and expanding broadband to all Americans, but that she sees “significant drawbacks” in Genachowski’s proposal to change broadband’s regulatory status. The centrist Republican senator from Maine said Genachowski’s effort could create uncertainty that would “hamper or delay investment in much-needed broadband.”
The criticism was included in a letter from Snowe to Genachowski dated Tuesday.
In the letter, Sen. Snowe went on to say that she’s onboard with updating the Communications Act, and that there is a “growing consensus” to get it done sooner rather than later.
Wednesday, June 02
CNBC’s Jim Goldman talked with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today about broadband regulation, among other things. Here’s the video:
Tuesday, June 01
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.
Friday, April 30
A a provision tucked away in the financial overhaul bill recently passed in the House appears to give the Federal Trade Commission more oversight over the Internet, especially when it comes to privacy. The Washington Post reports:
An emboldened FTC would stand in stark contrast to a besieged Federal Communications Commission, whose ability to oversee broadband providers has been cast into doubt after a federal court ruled last month that the agency lacked the ability to punish Comcast for violating open-Internet guidelines.
The version of regulatory overhaul legislation passed by the House would allow the FTC to issue rules on a fast track and permit the agency to impose civil penalties on companies that hurt consumers. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz has argued in favor of bolstering his agency’s enforcement ability.
“If we had a deterrent, a bigger stick to fine malefactors, that would be helpful,” Leibowitz told Fox News last week.
Responding to the news of the provision, the site TechDirt raises a good point:
[T]his would be a pretty massive change in policy, and as such, it deserves a full and open debate—something that seems increasingly rare when it comes to regulating the internet these days.
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