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To be fair almost none of those points, while completely valid, are within the FCC's charter. The only regulatory mandate the FCC has with regard to internet i
by austincheney 9y ago
To be fair almost none of those points, while completely valid, are within the FCC's charter.
The only regulatory mandate the FCC has with regard to internet is to ensure that ISPs offer uniformity of pricing and service as those schemes cross state boundaries (interstate regulation of wires and transmission), which isn't the problem net neutrality aims to solve.
- neom 9y agoI used to believe that also, but it turns out the FCC does the FTCs job when it comes to telecom and the internet (anti-trust etc) in the context of media. Personally I think that's the most important issue here, in my opinion the FCC is doing a job the FTC should be doing.
- austincheney 9y agoGood point. I really wish congress would codify this so that things like net neutrality would have no excuse for contention.
- neom 9y agoYes indeed. My opinions around "net neutrality" would change a lot IF the FTC was responsible for the media component, as it sits the lobbing allows for too much conflation of issues.