Verizon sent a letter and white paper last week to the FCC, insisting that “the FCC has ample authority to pre-empt state efforts to protect consumer privacy, and should act to prevent states from doing so.” Verizon’s letter reads in part: “Allowing every State and locality to chart its own course for regulating broadband is a recipe for disaster. It would impose localized and likely inconsistent burdens on an inherently interstate service, would drive up costs, and would frustrate federal efforts to encourage investment and deployment by restoring the free market that long characterized Internet access service.”
A brief article in Slashdot details the weaknesses in Verizon’s proposal.
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