“Entrepreneur, NBA team owner, and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has this to say about Net Neutrality and the push to regulate the Internet under Title II of the Telecommunications Act: ‘The government will fuck the Internet up,'” Nick Gillespie reports for Reason. “A huge Twitter user, Cuban also recently tweeted the following: ‘The promise of the net is not content. It’s high speed apps that chang[e] healthcare, medicine, transportation, safety and more… the best is yet to come on the net, and we cant hold it back because we want to make sure we can watch TV shows.We need fast lanes… Blocking access is different animal. Where have you seen it happen?'”
“The FCC specifically and governments generally have never been great at managing innovation. It works better when they stand aside and let it happen, as mostly happened with regard to the internet and web in the 1990s,” Gillespie opines. “Mostly, though not always: recall bipartisan attempts to place backdoors for easy spying in all sorts of telecom hardware and software, classifying encryption as munitions, and trying to regulate the internet in the name of protecting kids from child predators. The only thing that prevented that last bit from happening was a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling that extended toothsome First Amendment protections to the internet.”
“Net Neutrality and Title II reclassification are solutions to problems (blocking of sites! fast lanes that prevent new services from coming to market!) that don’t yet exist,” Gillespie writes. “Each ‘solution’ gives the same government that is godawful at respecting privacy rights more power over the most revolutionary means of communication since the printing press. Really not a good idea from just about any perspective.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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