Today is the day. The FCC is set to embrace a new regulatory regime over your Internet. Over the last few weeks an extraordinary number of voices have expressed concern over the presumed new rules that would apply additional regulations on top of existing FCC principles. A letter sent by 72 Democratic members of Congress, dozens of letters from Democratic and Republican governors, and don’t forget the two key union partners, CWA and the IBEW, sent separate letters voicing their concern. And you can now add suppliers to the growing number of organizations who are urging the FCC to proceed with great caution. Or more bluntly, telling the FCC NOT to get into the business of managing innovation and the Internet.
NextGenWeb is not a site that misses an opportunity. Supercomm 2009 presented us with a unique opportunity to hit the road and hear from all kinds of people on what they think about these proposed rules. We asked folks very simple questions like, “Should the FCC expand upon the existing FOUR principles that have protected an open Internet?” “Should they add new ones?” “Should they be applied to wireless technologies and applications?”
We mince no words on NextGenWeb when it comes to these questions. We believe in an open Internet, but also support the four existing principles already in place. Adding additional layers of government bureaucracy to a dynamic platform such as the Internet would be a mistake for several reasons.
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