——————Its all nonsense of course...the Feds have all the regulatory legislation they need to assert any anti-trust actions anywhere anytime against monopoly or pending monopoly in any industry that refuses to cut them in on it.——————
I agree. However, the FCC chief thinks differently:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2716212/posts
Which is stupid. They could easily work to have laws updated to apply to new content medium.
But they don’t want that. If laws reflected new ideas, then lawsuits *WOULD* work and then you and I would have no need for the precious bureaucrats.
And that’s really what it’s all about. They want the power. And by default, they have to take the power away from us.
I suspect most of it all reflects the fact that most legislation , contrary to Federal Law, is originating and being written in the agencies..and Congress has merely become its rubber stamp as the agencies are clever enough to write the rules to incorporate sufficient funds in their project that will eventually flow back into campaign coffers.
Its gonna be a real project to bloodlessly drain the DC swamp -but that really is the challenge of this generations dedication to freedom.