If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet — A counterfactual history of cyberspace:
These new regulations got me to thinking of where we would be today if the FCC had regulated the Internet from the get-go.
"We can't have the online industry pushing out beta software on unsuspecting customers willy-nilly. Such software could compromise the users' computers, interfere with other users' computers, or crash the whole online world," the FCC chairman says.
.. The FCC claims that it is shutting the chat rooms, which it had never approved, until AOL devises software that can prove that no child pornography is being traded there ..
The FCC is particularly enamored of the "back door" that Microsoft has built .. making it easier for police to monitor communications .. The censoring software is analogous to the V-chip the FCC wants TV manufacturers to build into their sets ..
.. FCC to require right-wing channels to link to left-wing channels, Christian channels to link to Muslim channels, vegetarian channels to link to meat-eating channels.
The FCC regulates subscription prices for all of the online companies .. online services continue to bleed subscribers and losses.
"The online world really needs to be a public utility," says the FCC chairman. "It is as essential to the nation's well-being as the police, national defense, the roads, and garbage collection."
Citing the same logic, the chairman also calls for the nationalization of cable TV at the local government level. "The tyranny of choice offered by cable television has left consumers confused, frustrated, and misinformed," he says.
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