The Pro-Consumer Agenda at the FCC

[McFurd]

Forbes - 2/20/2017 - Harold Furchtgott-Roth - Chairman Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications Commission was recently attacked by the New York Times as having an “Anti-Consumer Agenda.” Among other reasons, he is accused of questioning the value to consumers and the American economy of the prior FCC’s regulation of the Internet, the so-called “network neutrality” or “Open Internet” rules. Yet reviewing the network neutrality rules is a pro-consumer endeavor. The American consumer loves the Internet and has prospered with the Internet over the past 25 years, almost all without benefit of much federal regulation, much less network neutrality rules. The Internet paradise may have been good for the American consumer, but not necessarily good for those who make federal regulations, such as those at the FCC. According to the FCC, the Internet needed something new—federal regulation. Give a pleasant-sounding name—Network Neutrality or Open Internet—and no one would resist. Read more @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/haroldfurch ... 366c027ccf