[opendtv] Re: FTC on FCC Internet privacy rules
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 01:00:57 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The FTC does not regulate.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/chapter-I
Spend your own time drilling down into the FTC rules and regulations. Tons of
them.
We have all kinds of laws related to anti trust and privacy Bert.
Which may have absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality. We already saw
what McSweeny had to say on the matter, and I think her comments, that the FTC
and FCC have to cooperate to regulate telecoms, are probably better thought out
than Craig's?
The decisions made 110 years ago were a "compromise" between
politicians and large industries that wanted protection from competition,
What crap. Craig has a way of getting things backwards.
http://commercial.laws.com/commerce/mann-elkins-act
The goal was to prevent monopolistic practices, not to encourage them. "The
Interstate Commerce Act was a direct result of the unscrupulous policies of the
railroad industry. After the Civil War railroad industries were primarily
unregulated and each company held a natural monopoly. They were regarded with
distrust by much of the public, who felt that the railroad industry was forming
a monopoly and accused them with corruption, stock manipulation and rate
discrimination."
From this was born the concept of "natural monopolies."
And you have this backwards too. The natural monopolies existed, and
facilitated abuses on consumers. The laws came afterwards. They didn't CREATE
the natural monopolies, Craig. The laws had to be put in place because these
local monopolies were inevitable. And here you are, doing your best to make
sure this recurs over the Internet.
You mean like the Obama administration did with the Title II decision
and subsequent FCC regulations like the Privacy rules that limited
competition with major campaign contributors like Google and Amazon?
Explain, in as much detail as you can muster, how Title II, the neutrality
aspects especially, would have limited competition among web services. At best,
the privacy and transparency laws MIGHT have, if you assume they were so
overwhelmingly burdensome to the small competing companies. But neutrality?
Nonsense. You like to hide behind vague assertions, but you've been doing this
so long that everyone is wise to your tactic. Explain, don't just assert.
Bert
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