Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Abolish the FCC -- but for a different reason
Declan McCullagh's recent diatribe, "Abolish the FCC" is kind of right, but for some seriously wrong reasons. Declan observes correctly that the FCC has been fumbling the UNE-P issue, bumbling around the edges of censorship with Stern punishment, and crumbling computer functionality with broadcast flags. As Declan points out, the FCC is crimping the Constitution, cheating on its charter, overreaching it orders. But he misses the fact that all of these briar patches are application-layer issues. And in his resulting confusion, he erroneously looks to the physical layer -- the regulation of spectrum -- to "solve" app-layer problems . . .
Continue reading this over at WirelessUnleashed.
Continue reading this over at WirelessUnleashed.
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