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FCC says antitrust laws are not enough protection for Net Neutrality
CURRENT ANTITRUST LAWS are not strong enough to protect the open internet, according to the head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and must be supported with additional net neutrality assurances.
Reuters reports on statements that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski made during a congressional hearing.
Genachowski said that antitrust rules would prove difficult to use in relation to the fast-changing world of internet communications and must be supported with the additonal Net Neutrality provisions that the FCC approved at the end of last year.
"Antitrust enforcement is expensive to pursue, takes a long time and kicks in only after damage is done," he said in defence of the FCC's net neutrality rules and as a counter to Republican moves to challenge its authority and overturn its additional protections.
Earlier this year the US House of Representatives voted 240-179 to repeal the FCC regulations, but that doesn't stand much chance of passing the Senate and President Obama, who currently has a steely reputation, could veto the bill if it ever reached his desk, and probably would. µ
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They should get a meeting between EU commissioner kroes and the FCC staff, and put it on youtube, I wonder if there would be fisticuffs :)
It has, however, always been about leaving those with great fortunes free to amass even more with a minimum amount of government interference.
It is government interference, regulations and laws, that have given industry workers the assurance that steps be taken so as to not have their life and limbs put at risk every single day.
Just check out the life of a textile worker in the first industrial settings - more than one lost an arm and the businesses didn't do anything about it without heavy fines to force them to do it.
It's time fort the Republicans to take their heads out of the sand, wake up, and get on board. We're in the worst financial mess since the great depression due to deregulation. We prove again & again that businesses can't be left to themselves to "do the right thing"