Opponents of FCC’s New Internet Regulations Vow Swift Recourse
The Federal Communications Commission todsay voted to regulate the Internet for the first time, in what proponents have dubbed a “Net Neutrality” scheme. The new regulations forbid internet service providers from impeding access to legal web content. See the video below the fold for a good summary of what that means for Internet users. Neither side of the debate over the regulation of ISPs is particularly fond of today's ruling. Regulation advocates were mostly hoping that the FCC would classify the Internet and regulate it as a government-granted monopoly, in much the same way that telephone service has been regulated since the 1930s. Opponents of the new regulations claim the policy is a solution in search of a problem, and that the they will stultify Web innovation. Fortunately for both sides, then, forces are already at work to scale back the regulations. read more
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Opponents of FCC’s New Internet Regulations Vow Swift Recourse
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on December 21, 2010. Filed under