| The FCC should be shut down Am I the only one who believes that regulatory agencies such as the FCC shouldn't be allowed? These agencies were certainly not part of our constitution and should never have been allowed to be created in the first place. If the FCC had never existed, we can only imagine what type of broadband options we would have now, probably including fiber. |
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| i can't believe i'm even replying.. ok. should i be allowed to broadcast on the same frequencies that law enforcement, military, or hospitals use? if yes, then there's no need for an FCC. |
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JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO | reply to fatejudger13
said by fatejudger13:Am I the only one who believes that regulatory agencies such as the FCC shouldn't be allowed? Maybe not the only one, but one of how many?
Regulatory agencies were created in large part because businesses all too frequently do things that are not in the public interest, and often not even in their own interest. The last few years provide plenty of examples. While purists will argue that government regulation is the problem, and indeed it often creates some of its own problems, the period prior to government regulation provides ample examples of what went wrong to spur the beginnings of regulation.
I think that most complaints are about how the FCC is approaching things, and particularly about Powell's hands-off approach. |
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