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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.

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  1. Mod parent DOWN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's another option other than government and companies: the free market.

    STFU and go get an education. Goddammit, I am so sick of you "free market" wackos. For the LAST FUCKING TIME: A truly free market requires regulation, otherwise it's only free for rich entities. It takes a real moron to not see that. And we have far too many of you real morons in the US already.

  2. Re:Net Neutrality: anti-regulation regulation.. by mosb1000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "If they took the publics' money then they are obligated to put the interests of those taxpayers (their customers) at the top of their objectives."

    You see, this is why you should never take government money. You will go in with a certain set of requirements and restrictions, which you agreed to, and over time people will say "well we gave you money, so it's okay for us to change the terms of the agreement". No it is not fucking okay. Hello! What makes that okay? This is the same reason I will never ask for anything from my mother.

  3. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Many people have trouble reading 'normal' twitter posts. Here's a rough translation to the usual 'fsck teh man baby' style.
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    Becau$e you own the $pectrum and there'$ no longer a valid technical rea$on to grant it exclu$ively. Government granted monopolie$ on $pectrum i$ a primary internet regulation $omeone that believe$ in free market$ $hould oppo$e.

    Laying cable and fiber in other people'$ back yard$ and public property i$ a privilege. Tho$e granted that privilege mu$t accept public regulation in return for the public $ervitude. Think about that for a while and you realize that the Internet i$ already highly regulated but the regulation$ do not alway$ $erve the public intere$t. Common carrier and net neutrality i$ the lea$t the public can a$k in return for exclu$ive u$e of public property. The public can and $hould al$o demand competition in wired $ervice. $omeone who believe$ in free market$ would lower barrier$ to entry and u$e of wired network$.

    --
    Friends don't help friends install Microsoft Corp. unlikeable software.