Topic: Net Neutrality
“The FCC needs to change course and bring new urgency to achieving four main goals: 1) Reining in Big Tech, 2) Promoting national security, 3) Unleashing economic prosperity, and 4) Ensuring FCC accountability and good governance.”
The first three of these four are not (or have not traditionally been) the FCC’s responsibility. I touched on this in Section 4.1, during the previous discussion about “reining in Big Tech.”
What’s particularly interesting here is that Republicans supported killing net neutrality, which the FCC enforced, saying it “gave too much power and discretion to the FCC. Perhaps they’re coming around to the idea that killing net neutrality was a terrible idea. (Spoiler: Yes. That is what is happening.) More in the analysis below.
Full contextual analysis of Section 5.2: Federal Communications Commission here.