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The EM spectrum is a natural and effectively finite resource. Regulation was there to enforce standards and to build a market. The internet from its very incept
by jonathankoren 8y ago
The EM spectrum is a natural and effectively finite resource. Regulation was there to enforce standards and to build a market. The internet from its very inception has always been an interconnection of private property working over private property.
This the same reason why the FCC can regulate content on the airwaves, but can’t over cable. There’s no public property involved.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe EM spectrum is a natural and effectively finite resource. Regulation was there to enforce standards and to build a market. Hopefully, constellations of satellites providing Internet can take over almost entirely, so public property in the forms of bandwidth and orbits can justify such regulation. I say hopefully, because the current big tech culture has shown that it lacks the ethics to create level playing fields and curb its own biases. Ideologically biased actors in YouTube are basically engaging in ideological manipulation of the market within its walled garden.