FCC Google "Spy-Fi" Investigation To Establish Network Neutrality Authority? Thanks Scott!

[Commentary] Scott Cleland is mad at Google. This is not much of a surprise. Scott Cleland spends much of his time mad at Google and wishing terrible things would happen to the company. This time, Cleland wants the Federal Communications Commission to investigate and punish Google for their collecting user data while sending their truck fleet to find open hot spots as part of their "street view" project. The FCC has confirmed it is investigating Google's conduct. Cleland hopes the FCC will throw the book at Google. Feld is also hoping the FCC will act. But having pondered this for awhile, he's not sure Cleland understands precisely what an FCC action against Google would mean for issues like network neutrality and regulation of wireless broadband access. Briefly, it would require the FCC to either assert authority over all unlicensed spectrum and passive reception or authority over wireless broadband. While this does not trouble Feld, evil pro-regulatory big-government free-market hating Socialist that he is, he is rather surprised to see those (like Cleland) who usually want the FCC kept at arms length begging the FCC to charge into the fray and extend its authority over Google, especially when such an expansion of authority would extend to network neutrality regulation as well.