NetCompetition Statement on Election, Communications Law/Policy & FCC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 9, 2016, Contact:  Scott Cleland 703-217-2407

Election Provides Opportunity to Modernize Communications and Privacy Laws; And to Ensure a Pro-competition FCC that Fully Respects the Rule of Law, Facts, Due Process, Property Rights and Contracts

WASHINGTON D.C. – The following may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition:

“This election provides a rare opportunity for the new President and Congress to modernize obsolete communications law for the 21^st century, and also to pass comprehensive 21^st century privacy legislation that is consumer centric, and technology-neutral, treating similar privacies and communications similarly.”

“This election also affords the opportunity to ensure an FCC that believes market-based competition benefits consumers more than government-managed competition, and that consumers benefit most from government actions that fully respect the rule of law, facts, due process, property rights and contracts.”  

Background -- a NetCompetition White Paper: Thinking & Starting Anew: Modernizing Communications Law for American Consumers

NETCompetition.org is a pro-competition e-forum representing broadband interests.  See www.netcompetition.org. Scott Cleland served as Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the George H. W. Bush Administration.