Will the FCC Regulate the Net?

Will the FCC Regulate the Net? |
| from the someone's-gotta-regulate-everything dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 21, @11:54 (The Internet|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/21/1545201 |
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[0]Lam1969 writes "Computerworld's Robert Mitchell [1]wonders if the FCC
could one day have regulatory power over the Internet. The causes? As
telephone calls are increasingly delivered as an IP service, and
traditional telephony fades away, traditional telephone companies are
demanding a level regulatory regimen for all service providers. From the
article: "Assuming that the FCC buys arguments such as this, we could see
a new regulatory focus on the Internet and a decline in the hands-off
attitude shown in the past. From the regulators' viewpoint, the Internet
increasingly may be viewed as just another utility that requires
oversight.""


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1. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/1456