FCC’s Genachowski Not Neutral on New Net Rules

The proponents of Net neutrality say that government regulation is necessary for a free and open Internet, but history doesn’t support that argument. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, for example, was supposed to bolster competition. Instead, by compelling companies to share their infrastructures, the government’s rules reduced incentives for improvement. In the long run, it failed. In this article, I go over some of the problems with Chairman Genachowski’s speech on Net neutrality last week.