President Obama's problematic Net neutrality declaration

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[Commentary] President Barack Obama’s network neutrality policy statement was an unusually high-level effort to sway an independent agency, all five of whose members President Obama appointed (although two were effectively chosen by Republicans). And it produced the predictable result: Advocates of the most stringent approach to net neutrality said President Obama was saving the Internet; service providers and others who are not so enthusiastic about government regulation said the President was breaking it. But President Obama seems to have underestimated how hard it will be to fit Title II to the task of protecting Net neutrality. And like many Net neutrality advocates, he also seems to ignore that restricting what ISPs can do with edge providers may also limit innovation and competition. Title II has its own problems that policymakers can't ignore.


President Obama's problematic Net neutrality declaration