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If the FCC had regulated the Internet: A counterfactual history of cyberspace.

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - The FCC immediately determines that the lack of interoperability among the online systems harms consumers and orders that each company submit a technical framework by January 1994 under which all online companies will unify to one shared technology in the near future. The precedent for this are the technical standards that the FCC has been setting for decades for AM and FM, and for television. The online services threaten legal action again, and again Congress passes new legislation authorizing the FCC to do as it wishes. The online companies hustle to submit a technical framework. Microsoft wants in on the game, so it persuades the FCC to extend the framework deadline to July 1995.

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Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Steve Wozniak - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - If Net Neutrality opponents has been in charge back in the 1970s, I wouldn't have been able to build the first Apple computers

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Hands off tomorrow's Internet

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Meredith Attwell Baker - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - Discouragingly, the FCC is intervening to regulate the Internet because it wants to, not because it needs to. Preserving the openness and freedom of the Internet is non-negotiable; it is a bedrock principle shared by all in the Internet economy. No government action is necessary to preserve it. Acting only on speculative concerns about network operators and contrary to a decade of industry practice, the FCC is moving forward aggressively without real evidence of systemic competitive harms to cure, markets to fix or consumers to help.

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From Google and Verizon, a path to an open Internet

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eric Schmidt, Ivan Seidenberg - Aug. 10 (Editorial) - We believe this public policy framework empowers an informed consumer, ensures the robust growth of the open Internet and provides incentives to strengthen the networks that carry Internet traffic.

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