The intensely competitive nature of the Internet is vital to the American economy and democracy. So we worry that rules proposed this month by Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to guarantee the Internet’s openness may not be able to guarantee the survival of that competition.Any new rules must prevent broadband service providers from foreclosing on competition. As proposed, the rules appear to come up short.To read this New York Times editorial in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/opinion/18sat2.html
Editorial: Protecting the Internet For Americans
The intensely competitive nature of the Internet is vital to the American economy and democracy. So we worry that rules proposed this month by Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to guarantee the Internet’s openness may not be able to guarantee the survival of that competition.