Michael Copps
Michael Copps
Michael Joseph Coppsis a former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, an independent agency of the United States government. He was sworn in on May 31, 2001 and served until December 31, 2011. He took on the additional role of acting chairman from January 22, 2009 through June 28, 2009. He relinquished the chairmanship to Julius Genachowski after Genachowski was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 25 and then sworn in on June 29, 2009. He is currently...
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More (conditions) would clearly have been better, ... This is better than approving these mergers without any conditions.
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Am I entirely satisfied? No. But this order is now conditioned on provisions designed to address numerous possible harms to competition and to consumers, as well as to protect the openness and innovation that must always characterize the Internet.
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The issue is whether a few large conglomerates will be granted content control. Will we still be able to get local news and clashing views?
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The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits that either the applicants or the majority find here. The more I review the issues at stake in this proposal, the more I am persuaded it should not go forward.
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The more powerful and concentrated our facilities grow, the more they have the ability, and perhaps even the incentive, to close off Internet lanes and block IP pathways, ... The conditions we adopt today speak directly to this issue before increased concentration of last-mile facilities and the Internet backbone make it intractable.
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In a sense, these mergers can also be seen as an epitaph for the competition that many of us thought we would enjoy as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,
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If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.
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Don't shy away from asking the tough questions. Go wherever the facts lead. If you ruffle feathers, so be it.
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The order is far from ideal, ... We take the dramatic step of reclassifying DSL in order to spur broadband deployment and to help consumers. I want to test that proposition a year from now.
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Tollbooths and gatekeepers are the exact opposite of what the Internet is all about. Down that route, consumers can count on paying more and getting less - less content, fewer services and reduced innovation.
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Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,
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Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.
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We should be leading, and we’re not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.
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People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.