Spare California’s SB-1161 any criticism laced with “fear mongering and...
Spare California’s SB-1161 any criticism laced with “fear mongering and political posturing,” said the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project (CLIP) in a Monday blog post (http://xrl.us/bndn9z). The bill proposes forbidding the California Public Utilities Commission to regulate VoIP service until…
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2020 except in cases where a state statute permits it and is currently expected to remain in the Assembly Appropriations Committee until early August. The legislation would “provide California’s high tech industry with the certainty it needs to invest in the next generation of innovative Internet products and services,” said CLIP, which accused the bill’s various consumer-advocate critics (CD June 25 p6) of “misguided assumption that it would eliminate consumer protections for telephone services.” The organization fears regulatory “balkanization” if individual states develop rules for VoIP, which it says would hurt the “economic growth, individual empowerment, and entrepreneurialism” that’s grown up around services like VoIP. CLIP is a project within the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which says it embraces the principles of “limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty."