The FCC Moves In

Here is another good article to check out that was posted in The New York Times regarding the FCC's role in regulating broadband service: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/business/18fcc.html?ref=technology

The FCC claims that it will not be regulating Internet content, but regulating "the transmission component of broadband Internet service." This is making some opponents of the move nervous that the FCC will continue to have a heavier hand in both rates of broadband service and eventually content that moves over the Internet.

Most of the readings in LIS 2600 (and Dr. Tomer as well) suggest that the fast success and flexibility of the Internet and Web are due to the fact that it is unregulated. I agree with this sentiment. Especially after reading Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous and Bollier's Viral Spiral, you get a broad sense of what a significant impact the open access of Web 2.0 has had on culture and social learning.