Monday, September 28, 2009

The FCC's heavy hand - washingtonpost.com

IN A SPEECH at the Brookings Institution last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski promised that his agency's plan for regulating Internet service providers (ISPs) will be "fair, transparent, fact-based and data-driven."

That's nice. But Mr. Genachowski failed to convincingly answer the most important question of all: Is this intervention necessary?..