Clarifying What is "Regulating the Internet?"
The Wall Street Journal reports that FCC Chairman Genachowski told them:
- “I don’t see any circumstances where we’d take steps to regulate the Internet itself,” Genachowski said Tuesday, during a meeting with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. “I’ve been clear repeatedly that we’re not going to regulate the Internet.”
The big open question now is what exactly is "the Internet itself" to which the FCC Chairman is referring?
- Is FCC Chairman Genachowski's definition of "the Internet" compatible with Congress' definition of "the Internet" in Section 230(f)(1) of the 1996 Telecom Act?
- "The term 'Internet' means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.”