Posted on 04/14/2010 8:56:06 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told a Congressional panel on Wednesday that a recent court ruling that the agency lacked authority to regulate the Internet should not prevent it from carrying out its plan to broadly expand the countrys high-speed Internet service.
But the chairman refused to say if the commission would try to reclassify Internet service as a utility similar to telephone service to overcome the court decision, a move that some Democratic senators supported but that several Republican senators strongly warned against.
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But...but...the other tyrants and dictators are doing it...
Authority? We don't need no stinking authority.
The FCC should stay away from the Internet.The private telecommi ications companies do a great job already.They would do even better of the government would get out of the way.
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