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MEDIA ADVISORY                                  May 15, 2014

 

Contact: Randolph May at 202-285-9926

 


 
Free State Foundation President Randolph May issued the following statement concerning today's FCC action proposing new net neutrality regulations:

"As the net neutrality debate enters its second decade, it continues to be characterized by a triumph of sloganeering over proper regulatory analysis. In its last attempt to impose net neutrality mandates, which resulted in a judicial setback, the FCC's Democrat majority failed to consider whether a market failure existed that required regulatory action in order to protect consumers. It appears that the present Democrat majority also does not intend to conduct any meaningful market power or cost-benefit analysis as a predicate for deciding whether or not to regulate Internet providers, but rather instead to simply rely on potential conjectural harms and personal anecdotes.

This is not a proper way for a supposed 'expert' independent agency to proceed. It is increasingly clear that the net neutrality issue should be left for Congress to decide. I'm confident that if we reach a point that America's consumers believe that the Internet needs new FCC regulations in order somehow to be 'saved' from conjectural harms -- despite the remarkable progress made in the past absent such regulations -- they will make their views known to their elected representatives."
 


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Randolph J. May, President of the Free State Foundation, is a former FCC Associate General Counsel and a former Chairman of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Mr. May is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.

 

Mr. May is a nationally recognized expert in communications law, Internet law and policy, and administrative law and regulatory practice. He is the author of more than 150 scholarly articles and essays on communications law and policy, administrative law, and constitutional law. Most recently, Mr. May is the editor of the new book, "Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years." He is the author of A Call for a Radical New Communications Policy: Proposals for Free Market Reform. And he is the editor of the book, New Directions in Communications Policy and co-editor of other two books on communications law and policy: Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated? and Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform. 

   

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