The future of the Internet is at a crossroads, heading...
The future of the Internet is at a crossroads, heading into a key meeting of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai in December on the future of Internet regulation, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said in remarks at…
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the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “One path holds great promise, while the other path is fraught with peril,” McDowell said. “The promise, of course, lies with keeping with what works, namely maintaining a free and open Internet while insulating it from legacy regulations. The peril lies with changes that would ultimately sweep up Internet services into decades-old ITU paradigms.” If proponents of new rules for the Internet get their way, “these efforts would merely imprison the future in the regulatory dungeon of the past,” he said.