Friday, February 27, 2015

The Government Wants to Regulate the Internet - Are you Kidding Me?

It is simply mind boggling that there are people in this country that think centralized government regulation is the answer to all of our problems.  A recent article in Wired Magazine "Flying Blind, The Tech-Unfriendly Skies" talked about the FAA's efforts to modernize air traffic control,  a process that began in 2002 and won't be complete until the summer of 2015 and which is 500 million dollars over budget.  The author Sara Breselor blamed government rules and standards which require new technology to comply with outdated and often irrelevant regulations and stated that these same issues were at the core of the HealthCare.gov and VA fiascos.  It is painfully obvious that some people do not learn from past mistakes, now the FCC wants to get its hands on the internet, one of the few things in this country that works without the help of government regulation.

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