ITIF Report Slams 'Broadband Populists'
“Broadband populists” seek to overregulate the internet through “a series of tactical skirmishes,” the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation reported Monday. Policymakers instead should embrace a private-sector model that’s working, ITIF said. “From net neutrality and zero rating to mergers,…
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broadband populists are using each of these smaller debates as a way of inching toward their broader goal of establishing a heavily regulated utility system or even full-blown government ownership,” President Robert Atkinson, the report’s lead author, said in a news release. “This death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy distracts policymakers and the public from the real debate we should be having about the type of broadband industry we should have in this country: one where private companies compete to offer the best services using different technologies, or one that is heavily regulated and run by the government.”