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Congress specifically forbade the FCC from applying common carrier regulation to what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 calls "information services."
by Steko 13y ago
Congress specifically forbade the FCC from applying common carrier regulation to what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 calls "information services."
- hgsigala 13y agoBut what mjmahone17 is saying is that the FCC should label broadband providers (in my view: both wired and wireless) as common carriers which would undo the "information services" label put on them in 2002 (http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/nrcb0201.html http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/n...)
- dasil003 13y agoIt's terrifying enough to think of congress today deciding the fate of the internet, much less the congress of 1996.
- SG- 13y agoWell, at least the Internet in the US. Other countries have their own laws and regulations.
- rayiner 13y agoThe Congress of 1996 did more or less what technologists wanted at the time: told the FCC to not regulate the internet.
- BrainInAJar 13y agoI'm excited to see what kind of crazy side-effects the stuff we the technologists of today are demanding (like net-neutrality) have
- stox 13y agoAny good idea you have today can be made into a bad idea later. See Alfred Nobel.