Citizens Against Government Waste said FCC members should...
Citizens Against Government Waste said FCC members should back off from imposing any new net neutrality rules, in a Monday CAGW filing saying it speaks for more than 1 million members (http://bit.ly/1jhBXK6). The proposed rules are “another attempt to solve…
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a problem that doesn’t exist,” CAGW said. “Proponents of net neutrality want the online world to be forced ‘open’ at the expense of successful Internet providers, but fail to recognize the many tradeoffs to ‘openness,’ such as increased spam, fewer privacy controls, slower service, and, perhaps most importantly, decreased incentives for investment and innovation.” The FCC has logged more than 201,000 comments in net neutrality docket 14-28 since it was created in February. The vast majority urge the agency to impose rules, based on a review of some of the comments.