Many critics like the current classification precisely because it ties the FCC’s hands. Berin Szoka, for example, heads the free-market group TechFreedom. He warns that reclassification would give the FCC a blank check to “do anything that they want.”
“In the long term you have no real certainty as to how you’re going to be regulated and which aspects of common carriage the FCC can impose on you,” Szoka says. He’s particularly concerned that reclassification could lead to broadband price controls, which he believes would discourage innovation in the broadband market.
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