{"id":157,"date":"2008-07-24T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/07\/24\/telling-the-fcc-what-i-think\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T20:41:59","slug":"telling-the-fcc-what-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/07\/24\/telling-the-fcc-what-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the FCC what I think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, my talented colleagues Wendy Seltzer<\/a>, Geoff Goodell<\/a> and Steve Schultze<\/a> did the very eloquent telling of the FCC that their proposal to give away spectrum to be used for “family-friendly” Internet, accomplished by network-level filtering of potentially harmful content, which I wrote about a few days ago<\/a>, is wrongheaded on many fronts:<\/p>\n

— it mistakenly treats the Internet like a broadcaster, which denies the Internet’s essential nature as a space for creation, collaboration and innovation;
\n— it will stifle both competition and innovation in important areas;
\n— it is in conflict with the FCC’s own policies promoting openness and neutrality; and worst of all,
\n— it violates the First Amendment<\/strong> (oh that!), suppressing large amounts of speech<\/p>\n

That’s the supershort version, if you have time to be really enraged about this (and you should!) you can read the whole comment on the FCC<\/a> website, in docket 07-195<\/a>. And sign up for Berkman’s mailing lists<\/a>, where news will surely be posted as it appears.<\/p>\n

Update: My fellow fellow Harry Lewis has a lovely post<\/a> on the absurdity of the proposed rule.<\/p>\n

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Actually, my talented colleagues Wendy Seltzer, Geoff Goodell and Steve Schultze did the very eloquent telling of the FCC that their proposal to give away spectrum to be used for “family-friendly” Internet, accomplished by network-level filtering of potentially harmful content, which I wrote about a few days ago, is wrongheaded on many fronts: — it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}