Monday, December 20, 2010

Regulating the Internet?

The article is about how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), made up of five members, is trying to vote on a plan to regulate the Internet. They are warned however that by doing so, it will further hurt our economy by hurting industry investment. Law makers say that they prefer Congress to make laws on regulating the Internet instead of President Obama but even though they say this, the FCC (which is one of Obama's commissions) is still pushing in regulating the Internet. The scary thing about this is that the governement wil be able to have tighter control of the content the public gets to view. The article later goes on to talk about how this will lead to dispute between Congress and Obama's agencies, which I think is extremely pointless because all it would lead to is not being able to pass laws and acts we need. The plan however has something I like, which is have a net-neutrality plan that will it illegal for Internet providers to discriminate against certain websites to mess with the access to certain websites.
There article also goes on about how critics say that the plan would do the opposite of making it fair for Internet providers because they believe that this unfair kind of system Internet providers do does not exist. It also goes into greater on the risk it has towards our economy and how we can't risk hurting our economy even further. Anoter big detail critics say about this plan is that Congress has the power to control the Internet "not the Commission."
I believe that Commisions do not have the right to get into the duties of Congress, it's illegal! Even though it has the possibility of either hurting or helping our economy, I believe that we still shouldn't do it because it's Congress' job to make plans like these. Plus, the plans' critics have very strong arguments against this, saying how much our economy will be hurt from this plan. Do you believe that we should take the risk with this plan, even if the risk will hurt our ecnomy? Do you believe that this will lead to further dispute between the Presidency and Congress? Isn't it illegal?

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