The FCC and The Internet Spell Disaster

This is a follow-up to a recent post reference; “Net Neutrality.” The very thing I feared when I wrote the previous mentioned post has occurred. A committee of five approved Obama’s request to regulate the internet by designating it as a public utility.

The real reason for the new FCC internet rules changes is the perception on the part of some that freedom is a vacuum in need of government control. Be forewarned, all will begin with regulation of rates for access.  It will institutionalize innovation by permission – giving advisory opinions on prospective business plans or practices. Competing tech companies will ask before innovating for fear of what will happen if they don’t.

Online traffic will have to be controlled in stipulated protocols, and trial lawyers will cash in with class-action lawsuits over the rules. As I see it, the purpose is control for control’s sake. Digital dysfunction must be conjured into being to justify a public-sector power grab. Aside from being a bad deal for everyone who relies on the Internet, this "Beltway-centric" plan also distracts the "FCC from what it should be focusing on: increasing broadband competition and giving consumers better broadband choices.”

Should not our leaders look at what government’s micromanagement of the Internet might look like by examining Amtrak, U.S. Postal Service, Obamacare? Has our federal leadership not wondered why Facebook, Google, Netflix are successful? The answer is obvious to even a half-wit. These mentioned companies started with a blank slate and created a new and better way to create and deliver products and services. Something Washington, heretofore has failed to do.

Anyone with a lick of sense knows that the providers must be able to survive financially to have an effective Internet. In summary; Regulated fees will come, the NSA will be watching and there will be taxation “at every level.” The FCC and net neutrality is not the right answer regardless to what Obama and his FCC Committee minions say. Suggest you contact your Congressional Representatives.