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[ PRIVACY Forum ] House Internet Freedom bill should be called
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Wed Apr 10 11:43:25 2013
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House Internet Freedom bill should be called Internet Chaos Bill
http://j.mp/16MSE5q (Tales of the Sausage Factory)
"Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications
and Technology will begin mark up of the so-called "Internet Freedom
Bill." As explained in the Majority Briefing Memo, we're still on
about that whole "the ITU will take control of the Internet and black
helicopters will come for out name servers" thing." Unfortunately, as
keeps happening with this, it looks like some folks want to hijack
what should be a show of unity to promote their own partisan domestic
agenda. Specifically, does the bill as worded undercut the (by
accident or design) the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC)
authority to do things like Network Neutrality?
As I elaborate below, however, this is not so much a stab at net
neutrality and the FCC generally as it is a murder/suicide. You can't
claim that this clips the wings of the FCC to do net neutrality by
making a law that the U.S. is opposed to "government control" of the
Internet without also eliminating laws that deal with cybersecurity,
copyright enforcement online, privacy, and a range of other stuff that
are just as much "government control" of the Internet - but that most
Republicans opposed to net neutrality actually like. Plus, as I noted
last week when discussing the rural call completion problem, taking
the FCC out of the equation may have some unforseen nasty consequences
that even Republicans might not like." -
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--Lauren--
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