(2003-12-16) Copps Fcc Warning

MichaelCopps, an FCC commissioner, warns of coming regulatory changes to end Common Carrier rules for Broad Band providers. Think about what could happen if your broadband provider could discriminate. It could decide which news sources or political sites you could view. It could prevent you from using children's Internet filtering technology that it didn't sell or that filtered out its own Web sites... Until real competition between technologies limits the power of incumbents, we must not abandon anti-discrimination rules. Libertarian as I am, I'm increasingly willing to force competition into the Market system. Especially when it involves extending monopolies from one space to another (e.g. from OS to office-suite to web-server, from cable TV to Broad Band to content...).