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Net Neutrality: A Dubious Legacy for Ted Stevens

The Los Angeles Times reported this week that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is the “grandfather of net neutrality.” Stevens, readers may recall, uttered the infamous gaffe that the Internet was “a series of tubes,” among other howlers. While it is unkind to poke too much fun at war veterans and public servants who cannot fathom technological advancements that occur late in…

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Added by Bruce Edward Walker on August 11, 2010 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Washington Post to FCC: Back Away from the Internet

The Washington Post editorial board leans left, but is more reasonable in its policy prescriptions than, say, The New York Times. The paper published a remarkably sound editorial Monday morning about the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan, and Chairman Julius Genachowski's desire to grab sweeping control over the digital economy by imposing strict net…

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Added by Jim Lakely on May 25, 2010 at 1:17pm — No Comments

FCC Staffer: Copps wants "jurisdiction over everything" on the Internet

Via our friend Peter Suderman over at Reason's blog comes this clip of a high-level staffer of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' sharing her boss' view of how the agency should eventually have control over the entire Internet.

Surely, as Suderman points out, this will be… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on May 19, 2010 at 3:58pm — 1 Comment

Julius "Caesar" Genachowski Has Spoken, and the Internet Will Be Worse for it

The indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page has a must-read piece on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's latest plan to grab power over the Internet. I already covered some of this ground here and…

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Added by Jim Lakely on May 8, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

FCC Plows Ahead with Plan to Regulate the Internet

Exactly one month after a federal court ruled the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet, the agency’s chairman unveiled a plan to nonetheless implement his ambitious National Broadband Plan—an avenue he called a “third way.”

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said agency lawyers had found a way for the commission to strictly impose net neutrality rules on Internet service providers (ISPs), despite the… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on May 6, 2010 at 5:27pm — 1 Comment

FCC to Defy Court Order, Impose Net Neutrality Rules Anyway

Apparently, those hints earlier this week that the Federal Communications Commission would back off its net neutrality agenda were just a bluff.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski did an…

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Added by Jim Lakely on May 5, 2010 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Good News: Chastened FCC Extends Net Neutrality Comment Period

The impact of the legal smack-down the DC Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Federal Communications Commission yesterday in Comcast v. FCC continues to rumble. In a sign of the significance of the decision — in which the court told the FCC it does not have the… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on April 7, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments