 JPCass join:2001-01-23 Denver, CO | reply to fatejudger13
Re: The FCC should be shut down 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. |