{"id":927,"date":"2009-09-28T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:14:07","slug":"wapo-editorial-net-neutrality-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/927\/wapo-editorial-net-neutrality-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Editorial: Net Neutrality Is a Bad Idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/em>, in an editorial published this morning titled “The FCC’s Heavy Hand<\/a>,” takes a surprising but welcome position on the issue of Net Neutrality<\/a>.\u00a0 Surprising because of the predictable and consistent pro-regulation stance to which readers of WaPo’s editorial page are accustomed.\u00a0 Welcome because it rightly points out that “federal regulators should not be telling Internet service providers how to run their businesses.”<\/p>\n

The editorial begins:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0a speech at the Brookings Institution last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski promised that his agency’s plan for regulating Internet service providers (ISPs) will be ‘fair, transparent, fact-based and data-driven.’<\/p>\n

“That’s nice. But Mr. Genachowski failed to convincingly answer the most important question of all: Is this intervention necessary?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The answer is “No!”\u00a0 As the Post <\/em>noted, Net Neutrality regulations\u00a0“will jeopardize\u00a0[‘an unfettered platform for competition, creativity and entrepreneurial activity’] — and stifle further investments by ISPs — with attempts to micromanage what has been a vibrant and well-functioning marketplace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post, in an editorial published this morning titled “The FCC’s Heavy Hand,” takes a surprising but welcome position on the issue of Net Neutrality.\u00a0 Surprising because of the predictable and consistent pro-regulation stance to which readers of WaPo’s editorial page are accustomed.\u00a0 Welcome because it rightly points out that “federal regulators should not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,148],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}