Another Month, Another Porker
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) announced a few days ago that it has “named Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski May Porker of the Month for his recent decision to push forward with an ill-conceived and possibly extra-legal plan to impose federal regulations on the Internet."
In naming Genachowski May’s Porker of the Month, CAGW said:
“Chairman Julius Genachowski is leading the FCC into uncharted waters, straight into a legal headwind. In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia laid down an unambiguous marker: the FCC has no authority to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to give equal treatment to all Internet content flowing through their networks, nor can it regulate ISPs under Title II without Congress’s express authority. The agency is out of its depth and will end up sinking time and the taxpayers’ money into harassing an industry that is functioning very well without ham-fisted government regulations,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.
“Chairman Genachowski is attempting to circumvent the court’s decision by seeking what he calls a ‘third way’ to insinuate the federal government into the workings of the Internet,” continued Schatz. “This mystical proposition belies the manifest reality: the taxpayers will be footing the bill for a giant new regulatory and enforcement bureaucracy to address an Internet crisis that does not exist. Chairman Genachowski’s third way is the wrong way.”
Another good choice for Porker of the Month by Citizens Against Government Waste.