On the recordApril 5, 2011
And so those were resolved by, yes, a little bit of involvement, but the marketplace. Now the comparison to Communist China here from the gentleman is appropriate when you look at how this measure was implemented. The President campaigned on net neutrality. Congress would not authorize it because Congress as a whole bipartisanly disagreed with net neutrality, giving a regulatory bureaucratic agency control over the Internet versus free market. So since Congress wouldn't pass it, sua sponte they just rose up and said we don't have the authority--well, they didn't say they don't have the authority, but Congress never gave them the authority to regulate the Internet, so they're just assuming that they're going to take that power away from the people and the marketplace and do it themselves. That is where the analogy to Communist China is appropriate.
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