“Modern” FCC policy can’t be made from obsolete...
"Modern” FCC policy can’t be made from obsolete communications law, but former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt has proposed just that, Precursor President Scott Cleland said in a blog post Monday (http://bit.ly/GZUs3M). In the paper, co-authored with Greg Rosston, former FCC…
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chief economist and current Stanford University professor Hundt argued a “laissez-faire” approach to telecom regulation will work only some of the time (CD Sept 30 p11). Hundt rewrote FCC history, redefined “modern” to make his competition policy suggestions sound more palatable, and imagined a “near all-powerful FCC,” Cleland said. “The authors’ characterization of their approach to FCC competition policy as modern is contrived and not accurate,” he said. “A modern FCC will adapt to the real progress of America’s competitive markets and world-leading technological innovation. A modern FCC will not look backward nostalgically or try to relive the past by dragging obsolescing, FCC-empowering, economic regulations into the present day so the FCC can quixotically try and control America’s Internet tomorrows."