Getting to the Real Roots of the Net Neutrality Debate

Thursday, 07 August 2014 09:58
By Candace Clement, Free Press | News Analysis

When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released his Internet rule proposal in May, he said all the right things:

The FCC must stand strongly behind its responsibility to oversee the public interest standard and ensure that the Internet remains open and fair. The Internet is and must remain the greatest engine of free expression, innovation, economic growth and opportunity the world has ever known. We must preserve and promote the Internet.

But the path the agency has laid out to do that is inherently flawed. And unless the FCC reverses course, we’ll end up right back where we started … again.