Michael Copp, an FCC commissioner, paints a distressing picture of the FCC’s role in restricting the Internet. Copp pushes for Network neutrality, i.e., preventing those who provide the pipes from controlling what goes over the pipe.

If providers can favor their own content, he says, we’ll end up with a balkanized Internet. “That inverts the entire democratic genius of the Internet. It makes the pipe intelligent and the end user dumb…It artificially constrains the supply of bandwidth.”

Copp thinks broadband access could become a grassroots issue. [Tags: f2c fcc net_neutrality michael_copp]

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