FCC Follies

Today the FCC will do something stupid, attempting to provide a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.  In the process they'll make it more difficult for communications firms to work, increase costs for all of us, and make it less likely that companies will want to put money into new innovation and technologies.  The Daily Caller has more:

Here’s what will most likely happen today: In the morning, the five members of the Federal Communications Commission will gather in a big room. The two Republican commissioners will read aloud passionate statements opposing the Democrats’ obsession with fixing a thing that is not broken. The three Democratic commissioners will read aloud passionate statements commending one another for saving the Internet from a dystopian future conjured out of whole cloth by paranoid public interest groups.

Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, previously a holdout, will vote for Genachowski’s plan; Democratic commissioner Mignon Clyburn will do the same. Chairman Julius Genachowski makes three to the Republicans’ two (commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Baker are both opposed to the rules).

They will hold a vote. The measure will pass. But still nobody will be happy.

There's more at the link. The FCC is launching into this foolishness despite the fact a court may soon tell them they can't do this. It's a blatant attempt to federalize another industry that doesn't need federal help.

Let's hope the courts stomp this out pretty soon.