FCC Commissioner Urges, Don’t Regulate the Internet

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Comcast, FCC, Internet, Technology

“In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining that ‘engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.’ With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a censored public Internet, McDowell may have a very good point.” McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.- Brett Glass, tech.slashdot.org

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