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"America's Unique Internet Success" my Washington Times commentary today

Be sure to read my commentary today in the Washington Times "America's Unique Internet Success."

  • It is particularly timely today given that House Telecom Subcommittee Chairman Markey is starting his series of net regulation hearings today by hearing from the inventor of the World Wide Web, a leading supporter of NN.
  • It is also timely because CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference starts today in Washington DC; I will be speaking on their Internet panel on Saturday morning.

The purpose of this commentary is to challenge head on Congressional Democrats' attempt to revise Internet history for political purposes and manufacture a "broadband crisis" where none exists.

  • It is very simple; for net regulation proponents to succeed, they need to create "the perception" that the Internet is somehow in danger.
  • The flaw in their effort is that it is all smoke and mirrors; there is no real problem at all -- only fear-mongering and gross misrepresentation of how the Internet operates.

I wrote this commentary because I was sick and tired of "America's Unique Internet Success" being trashed as a "failure" for political purposes.

  • The bottomline: THE INTERNET IS THE GREATEST DE-REGULATION SUCCESS OF ALL TIME!