Dingell To (FCC's) Genachowski: Abandon Title II Plan

Broadcasting & Cable ^ | July 28, 2010 | John Eggerton

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Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has counseled FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to "abandon" his effort to reclassify broadband under some Title II regs and told him to wait for Congress to weigh in, saying the chairman's defense of that plan was insufficient.

That came in a letter to Genachowski Wednesday in response to the FCC Chairman's letter Monday, which was itself a response to Dingell's letter of last week about the fact that he had gotten no response to a letter he had sent two months ago.

The key to that maze of correspondence was that Dingell said the chairman's response, or more to thepoint what he called the "paucity of responses" in Genachowski's letter Monday ((http://www.house.gov/dingell/pdf/20100726_FCC_Response.pdf)) lacked sufficient detail and confirmed Dingell's "fear" that the chairman's so-called "third way" proposal was "bad policy" that would lead to "protracted litigation."

He said of the chairman's defense that it was based on "unsound reasoning and an incomplete record."

Dingell has made clear before that he has major problems with the proposal. In fact, he pointed out that he was "reiterating" his call for the FCC to stand down and let Congress step in.

The chairman is attempting to clarify the FCC's authority over broadband access services in order to make sure it canimplement the national broadband plan and expand and codify its Internet openness guidelines. That comes in the wakeof the court decision throwing out the FCC's Comcast/BitTorrent decision saying the FCC had failed to identify itsstatutory authority to sanction Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer uploads.

But the chairman has also brought together both sides of the debate for talks at the FCC about a possible legislative solution.

The FCC is currently collecting comment on the proposal, as well as the options of doing nothing and applying the full force of Title II common carrier regs to broadband transmissions.

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Government control is the end game. It always is.

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Of interest to our group.

[hershey]

Govt. control and tax, plus tracking American patriots. (enemies of the state)

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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/111505-genachowskis-response-to-dingell-gram-fails-to-persuade
Genachowski’s response to Dingell-gram fails to persuade

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Alan Murray on the Future of WSJ and Television

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This has all been tried before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_1662

The Licensing of the Press Act 1662 is an Act of the Parliament of England (14 Car. II. c. 33), long title “An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses.” It was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863.

[Man50D]

The mere existence of the FCC is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically list regulating communications as an enumerated power. The FCC must be abolished.

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I agree. See here the history of how and why it got a toehold.

http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec023.htm
Early Government Regulation (1903-1946)

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The chairman is attempting to clarify the FCC's authority over broadband access services in order to make sure it canimplement the national broadband plan and expand and codify its Internet openness guidelines.

I like how they call a blatant attempt to censor the Internet "Internet openness guidelines." How typical of liberals, to call something by its exact opposite.

[Milhous]

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[PGalt]

Thanks very much for the ping/post. Thanks to all posters. The arrogant/condescending Dingell is a real piece of work. Since the Constitution was ratified this cretin has been in office for about 1/4 of our nation’s existence.