As Internet Shatters Middleman Role, What’s the Reason for the FCC?

With the Internet vastly undermining the role of the “middleman,” why do we accept that the FCC – one of the market’s middlemen – still has the same role (cop on the beat) that it traditionally has had for the past 75 years?  Hasn’t technology, consumer education, industry best practices, marketplace guidance and reputation management “open sourced” the “policing” function we allowed the FCC to once do?

Isn’t it time to just let the market work, and tweak – i.e., eliminate  – regulations that needlessly / dubiously place the FCC in the role as top policeman?  More specifically, if the Internet has “changed everything,” why hasn’t the role of the FCC / government regulator been similarly shattered?  Are regulators somehow immune to these dynamics?

Or, do we let them be so?

Small and Simple

We’re in the middle of something here in America.  Perhaps a move to something smaller.  The healthcare “debate” has ignited average people to re-think what government’s role in their lives is.  To complicate?  Or, to make more simple?  With each day, I see more choosing the latter.

“Limited government” has become unbounded.  Legislators have stopped reading the bills they vote on.  They have given their powers to un-checked government bureaucrats, who make law in their place.

Thankfully, technology is working to check these excesses.   It’s working to take us back to smaller, simpler government.  And, this is good.