{"id":8145,"date":"2011-01-03T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2011-01-03T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:52:06","slug":"tech-new-years-resolution-for-fcc-from-wsjs-crovitz-focus-on-competition-not-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8145\/tech-new-years-resolution-for-fcc-from-wsjs-crovitz-focus-on-competition-not-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolution for FCC from WSJ’s Crovitz: Focus on Competition, Not Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s<\/em> L. Gordon Crovitz just puts on a clinic on tech policy each Monday with his weekly “Information Age” column.\u00a0 Today is no exception.\u00a0 Entitled “Tech Resolutions for the New Year,”<\/a> Crovitz directs his first resolution toward Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that has again defied public opinion<\/a>, a unanimous D.C. Court of Appeals<\/a> and a bipartisan Congressional majority<\/a> with last month’s “Net Neutrality” resolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman:\u00a0 Focus on competition, not regulations, lobbyists and lawyers.\u00a0 By a partisan 3-2 vote, the Agency just before the holidays issued a plan to regulate the Internet.\u00a0 The claim is ‘net neutrality,’ but throughout the 194-page order the reality is vague standards such as ‘reasonableness.’\u00a0 This uncertainty creates a ‘regulator-may-I?’ approach to innovation and ensures years of litigation for a vital industry that evolved freely.\u00a0 The real problem remains a lack of broadband competition, caused by government grants of monopolies and duopolies.\u00a0 As open source guru Lawrence Lessig recently argued in Newsweek<\/em>, the FCC should be replaced with regulators whose mission is ‘minimal intervention to maximize innovation.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good advice.\u00a0 Crovitz’s weekly commentaries are a must-read – especially if your name is Julius Genachowski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s L. Gordon Crovitz just puts on a clinic on tech policy each Monday with his weekly “Information Age” column.\u00a0 Today is no exception.\u00a0 Entitled “Tech Resolutions for the New Year,” Crovitz directs his first resolution toward Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that has again defied public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2225,188,346,102,2226,148,1404],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-crovitz","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-free-market","tag-information-age","tag-net-neutrality","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8148,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/8148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}