Tuesday, September 22, 2009

FCC wants to be smart cop of Internet; questions on details remain - Post I.T. - A technology blog from The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com)

The devil is always in the details. That's what Verizon's vice president of regulatory affairs, David Young, told me after the FCC announced its proposal Monday morning of new rules on how operators treat Web content and services on their networks.

In his speech at the Brookings Institution, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski described the FCC's role to be the "smart cop on the beat preserving a free and open Internet..."