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FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet

Posted by kdawson on 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.

2 of 343 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's government or corporate, choose your devil by clang_jangle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    etc al

    Duh, I meant "et al".

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    Caveat Utilitor
  2. Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So the people who created it have indefinite right to control it?

    Should that apply to patents and copyright too? Or only when it suits you?