The Internet grew like wildfire without government involvement, yet, these pinheads want to take credit and take over.
As went the Bells will go the Net, all the same. The government got involved in telephony, regulated it, taxed its use, and telephony is on the wane. Technological advancement was preferred over a continuously increasing tax burden for use of communication devices. Thus cell phones and the Internet.
Now they want to regulate, restrict, and tax the use of another communication medium. I predict the proliferation of peer-to-peer wireless ad-hoc technology platforms.
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people,
under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
I sense an FCC defunding coming soon...
It’s all a big powergrab.
The FCC sees radio/tv broadcasting going away (satellite broadcasts, like cable, are not regulated by the FCC).
They need to keep their agency, regulatory role, and jobs.
Same with the post office. Remember when the USPS had the idea of printing out emails for people and hand delivering them to your mailbox for $0.25 each?
I would want to see exactly what the FCC would control.
I don’t know who I trust less — the FCC or the cable/telephone Internet providers.
I do know my cable internet provider throttles down my connection speed to a crawl if I have a large number of downloads in a month.
This G-man is a good sock puppet and you know where Obama’s got his hand...
As with every other Obama initiative, look for this one to satisfy nothing and no one, while, at the same time, solving nothing and, in fact, making everything worse.
At this point in the current administration, the moment Obama opens his big yap, you can set your watch by the decrease in the quality of life.
It says that “Congress shall pass no law”.
So we’ll take it by fiat. :)
Now pay your taxes...