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‘We don’t need the FCC’: A Trump adviser’s proposal to dissolve it
- MrZongle2 10y ago"Most of the original motivations for having an FCC have gone away," Jamison wrote. "Telecommunications network providers and ISPs are rarely, if ever, monopolies." While I sometimes wonder about the value of the FCC in some respects, I think the statement above is a load of horseshit. Jamison either has friends at Comcast (edit: nope, Sprint: http://fortune.com/2016/11/21/trump-net-neutrality-fcc/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/21/trump-net-neutrality-fcc/), or mentally is stuck back in the 90s where everyone and their brother owned a dial-up ISP. Although I think the standard response is to raise a hue and cry and fight a move to dissolve the FCC wholesale, I think a far more effective tactic is to talk about what the FCC does well, what it could do well, and what (if any) responsibilities should either be handled through legislation or removed. I'm pretty sure that there's a baby in all that bathwater.
- dozzie 10y agoMy thoughts exactly. Whenever I see somebody talking about internet connectivity in US I have an impression that stronger anti-monopoly regulation would help, as it helps to some degree in EU. Dissolving FCC seems to be a step backwards.