At best this “net neutrality” b.s. is inserting the FCC into areas that have no need of government oversight - where is the problem now??
As the saying goes, “the power to regulate is the power to destroy” — why are all the lefty foundations and law professors having wet dreams over “net neutrality”??
b/c it puts the FCC and federal judges in the position of adjudicating every kind of issue that comes up in the future about internet traffic flows.
I found this detailed overview (which is from 2004 but still seems highly relevant):
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa507.pdf
The socialists want to control the Internet - that’s enough reason for me to want to keep them far away from any more legal oversight.
Ironically (at end of paper linked above) even a lefty like John Conyers could not see any good reason for extending govt oversight in this area. Don’t know whether he and some like him have been changed by pressure groups, but this “net neutrality” b.s. has always been lefty pressure groups searching for a way to grab more oversight of Internet traffic issues.
or as John Fund says in the WSJ,
“So the “media reform” movement paid for research that backed its views, paid activists to promote the research, saw its allies installed in the FCC and other key agencies, and paid for the FCC research that evaluated the research they had already paid for. Now they have their policy. That’s quite a coup.”