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| FCC Commissioner Urges, Don’t Regulate the Internet                |
|   from the horse-halfway-out-of-the-barn dept.                     |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday July 28, @20:12 (The Internet)       |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/006231 |
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[0]Brett Glass writes “In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, FCC
Commissioner Robert McDowell [1]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 [2]pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play
for a [3]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 [4]punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.

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Links:
0. http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/remarks.html
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701172.html
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/2243210&tid=95
3. http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/080124-tk.html
4. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/27/1257237&tid=230