A Free Market, If You Can Keep It: The Need For Online Innovation, Not Regulation

Most people see an Internet free from government oversight as something to be celebrated. We understand that the Internet is the greatest free-market innovation in history. We know that it would not be what it is today had it been saddled with government rules. And we understand that there are few greater threats to its advancement than a government regulator who boasts “I’m here to help.” But some disagree. They disdain a free-market approach to the Internet because they believe that every major sector of our economy should be subject to extensive government regulation. And in particular, they believe that the Internet is too big and too important not to be subject to government control.”