Rep. Blackburn, Co-Sponsor Of E-PARASITE, Explains Why Regulating The Internet Is Terrible

First of all (and I say this as someone who agrees that the administration stretched its mandate with its net neutrality move), what she describes as net neutrality is not what net neutrality is. That said, what her comments apply much more to is the bill that Blackburn herself co-sponsored, which definitively regulates the internet — including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter — by putting a massive burden on them to proactively monitor the internet, to stop infringement.

If anything can bring an untimely end to the US’s success in creating companies that serve the current media era, it’s made-to-order regulation striving to prop up the decaying corpses of 20th century broadcast media.

Happy Internet Halloween everybody!