Commentary

Obama to FCC: Let's Regulate the Internet

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 13 2014

The Internet has done just fine over the past two decades without Barack Obama's oversight. So naturally, amid his other post-election tantrums, he now wants to begin regulating Internet service like an old-fashioned utility. That is not hyperbole. This week, perhaps in a fit of vindictive defiance following his humiliating electoral rebuke, Obama lectured the nation that his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should begin regulating Internet service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, which was crafted for Depression-era railroad and telephone networks. …

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