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Phil Weiser

2009

Law and Technology

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The Future Of Internet Regulation, Phil Weiser Feb 2009

The Future Of Internet Regulation, Phil Weiser

Phil Weiser

ABSTRACT: The Future of Internet Regulation Policymakers are at a precipice with regard to Internet regulation. The FCC's self-styled adjudication of the complaint that Comcast had violated the agency's Internet policy principles (requiring reasonable network management, among other things) made clear that the era of the non-regulation of the Internet is over. Equally clear is that the agency has yet to develop a model of regulation for a new era. As explained in this Article, the old models of regulation-reliance on command-and-control regulation and market forces subject only to antitrust law-are doomed to fail in a dynamic environment where cooperation …


The Future Of Internet Regulation, Phil Weiser Feb 2009

The Future Of Internet Regulation, Phil Weiser

Phil Weiser

ABSTRACT: The Future of Internet Regulation Policymakers are at a precipice with regard to Internet regulation. The FCC's self-styled adjudication of the complaint that Comcast had violated the agency's Internet policy principles (requiring reasonable network management, among other things) made clear that the era of the non-regulation of the Internet is over. Equally clear is that the agency has yet to develop a model of regulation for a new era. As explained in this Article, the old models of regulation-reliance on command-and-control regulation and market forces subject only to antitrust law-are doomed to fail in a dynamic environment where cooperation …