FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 28, 2008 @12:12PM from the horse-halfway-out-of-the-barn dept.

Brett Glass writes "In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining that 'engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.' With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a censored public Internet, McDowell may have a very good point." McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.

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FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet

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