LTE chron.com: Internet Control

Regarding "Challenges loom over rules for net neutrality" (Friday Business), with this effort by the Obama administration to take over the Internet by declaring it a public utility, one must ask: is there any limit on the ambitions of the Democrats to regulate everything?  The answer, I believe in this case, is yes.  Unlike, say, America's health care system, the Internet is a transnational colossus that inconveniently spills far beyond America's borders, much less its influence.

I'm looking forward to the first attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to dictate to China precisely how much bandwidth will be allocated by one of its providers to American consumers, or by an American provider to Chinese consumers, much less the hundreds of other sovereign nations that currently host the Internet.  

Our bureaucrats are way overdue for some comeuppance.  This will be it.

Pete Smith

Houston, TX

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Internet control

Regarding "Challenges loom over rules for net neutrality" (Page D1, Friday), with this effort by the Obama administration to take over the Internet by declaring it a public utility, one must ask: Is there any limit on the ambitions of the Democrats to regulate everything? The answer, I believe in this case, is: Yes. Unlike, say, America's health care system, the Internet is a transnational colossus that inconveniently spills far beyond America's borders, much less its influence.

I'm looking forward to the first attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to dictate to China precisely how much bandwidth will be allocated by one of its providers to U.S. consumers, or by an American provider to Chinese consumers, much less the hundreds of other sovereign nations that currently host the Internet. Our bureaucrats are way overdue for some comeuppance. This will be it.

Pete Smith, Houston