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MEDIA ADVISORY November 10, 2014
Contact: Randolph May at 202-285-9926
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Free State Foundation President Randolph May Responds to President Obama's Statement Urging the FCC to Impose Public Utility-Style Regulation on Internet Providers:
"The amazing innovation and staggering investment that have occurred in the Internet ecosystem over the past 15 years absent stringent net neutrality regulation is unquestioned. To me, as someone who has been involved in communications law and policy for almost four decades, it is unthinkable that President Obama now would urge the FCC to put this progress at risk by imposing public utility-type regulation on Internet providers. Public utility-type regulation may have been appropriate for Ma Bell last century and for the railroads in the 19th century, but it is wholly out of place for today's Internet providers operating in a dynamic marketplace.
The FCC could address potentially harmful Internet practices by invoking its authority to regulate Internet providers in a carefully targeted, light-touch manner. But, unfortunately, that potential approach now appears to have been abandoned by the FCC's Democrat majority. Unless the FCC backs off, it will be up to Congress to repair the damage by devising a sensible policy that benefits all consumers."
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.
The Free State Foundation is a non-profit, independent free market-oriented think tank.
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