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Why Have A Telecommunications Law? Anti-Discrimination Norms In Communications, Tim Wu
Why Have A Telecommunications Law? Anti-Discrimination Norms In Communications, Tim Wu
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This paper describes a vision of what telecommunications laws’ central goals should be in coming decades, and what kind of legal instruments will serve those goals. The telecommunications law, I suggest, has been preoccupied with three projects: allocating rights, managing discrimination, and achieving various social goals, like indecency regulation. This paper argues that in the future the main point of the telecommunications law should be as an anti-discrimination regime, and that the main challenge for regulators will be getting the anti-discrimination rules right.
The view advanced here, while much popularized over the last decade, has deeper roots reaching back to …