Baker: Network Neutrality is "partisan, big government intervention"

Speaking to the Federalist Society, Federal Communications Commission member Meredith Baker addressed the FCC's upcoming vote on network neutrality. "By seeking to regulate the Internet now," she said, "we exceed the authority Congress has given us, and justify those concerns."

She believes that the Commission should defer to Congress on the matter, especially since the courts ruled earlier this year that the FCC "failed to make [its] showing" that Title I-based network neutrality protections were within the FCC's authority -- and the Commission now plans to adopt a new order based on Title I authority. "It is a partisan, big government intervention in a rapidly evolving sector that has flourished without its heavy hand. And, it goes to a broader question of the proper role of an independent agency whose operation is increasingly divorced from the limits of its statute."