”The judicial branch is our Frodo,” said Fred Campbell, director...
"The judicial branch is our Frodo,” said Fred Campbell, director of the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (http://xrl.us/bn7cpt). Like the people of Middle Earth relied on the defenseless Frodo to protect them from evil by…
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destroying the Ring of Mordor, Americans today rely on the judicial branch to protect them from an overzealous government by applying the First Amendment to mass communications in the Internet era, Campbell said. “Providing ISPs and search engines with First Amendment rights would prevent dangerous and unnecessary government interference with the Internet while permitting the government to protect Internet consumers within Constitutional bounds,” he said. Verizon took heavy criticism recently for arguing the net neutrality rules shouldn’t apply to it because ISPs have First Amendment rights.