Free Markets, Not Government, Is The Real Answer

J.J. Jackson* | July 12, 2008

Filed Under The Constitution, Unconstitutional Acts

Sigh … Congress has no authority under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create or fund agencies that regulate the internet. Yet we still are having this discussion.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.

The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of “file sharing” software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data.

“The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told The Associated Press late Thursday. “We found that Comcast’s actions in this instance violated our principles.”

Martin said Comcast has “arbitrarily” blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so.

Here’s a better idea. Let the market decide. If people do not like how Comcast treats them then they can go and get another service. It is not like they cannot find alternatives even if there are no other landline internet supplies in the area. There is always Satellite.

Can we please get government out of our lives! Bureaucrats need to stop telling businesses what services they must provide, how and to who.

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