{"id":1654,"date":"2009-04-14T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:39:13","slug":"regulation-nurtured-the-internet-obsidian-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/14\/regulation-nurtured-the-internet-obsidian-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation nurtured the Internet (Obsidian Wings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 April 2009, Obsidian Wings in <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/04\/the-regulatory-origins-of-the-internet.html\">The Regulatory Origins of the Internet<\/a> reminds us that the birth and continuing success of the Internet is due to regulatory oversight and initial R&amp;D funding by the government. Importantly, the government did not allow the phone companies to dictate the terms of access.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Wisely, in the <em>Computer Inquiries<\/em> proceedings, the FCC opted for open, nondiscriminatory access.\u00a0 The Twitters of yesteryear didn&#8217;t need permission from AT&amp;T to start their business.\u00a0 The nondiscriminatory access that made the Internet successful didn&#8217;t happen because AT&amp;T was full of benevolent, far-seeing souls.\u00a0 It was because of government regulation.\u00a0 (On an aside, that&#8217;s why the fight over net neutrality is actually a battle to <em>maintain<\/em> a ridiculously successful status quo).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Given that the Internet is probably the single greatest advance of mankind since the printing press, you could plausibly argue that the Internet is regulation&#8217;s crown jewel.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that environment continues to prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 April 2009, Obsidian Wings in The Regulatory Origins of the Internet reminds us that the birth and continuing success of the Internet is due to regulatory oversight and initial R&amp;D funding by the government. Importantly, the government did not allow the phone companies to dictate the terms of access. &#8216;Wisely, in the Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}