Everyone who uses the internet is concerned over the language in this new FCC Ruling which will now regulate the internet as a public utility. The archaic drafting of the internet ruling leaves behind what we have learned the internet to be. We need to have regulations that reflect the current marketplace and the place that the internet holds in our communications, business, and lives. Congress needs to take this on and interpret the rules and regulations to reflect what this technology truly is in today’s world, not the words of drafting a public utility document from years past.
The Daily Signal
Economy ANALYSIS
It’s Here: The Roadmap for a Government-Controlled Internet
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A full two weeks after voting to regulate the Internet as a public utility, the Federal Communications Commission has finally revealed the text of its Open Internet Order to the American public. Weighing in at 400 pages, the decision is an immense one—but it’s clear that the order’s impact on the Internet and the economy will be even heftier.
The Commission’s action replaces 18 years of “light-touch” regulatory policy with clunky, antiquated rules first devised in the 1930s for the Bell telephone monopoly. These common carrier, or “Title II,” regulations the agency has imposed on Internet service providers are about as appropriate in the Internet age as trying to use a rotary phone to watch a movie on Netflix.
The burdensome rules will chill investment in the core of the Internet, leaving everyone with slower speeds and less innovation. A broad range of innovative and pro-consumer services will potentially be stopped cold by the rules, potentially including such popular offerings as T-Mobile’s “Music Freedom” plan that allows unlimited access to music streaming services, and Sprint prepaid social media access plans.
What exactly will be prohibited to consumers, however, is still unknown, as the rules leave final decisions in the discretion of regulators. Is this really what openness looks like?
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