Free Press: FCC Proposal a Step Toward Correcting Powell-Era Mistakes

Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– In an interview Thursday with CNBC, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell called Chairman Julius Genachowski’s decision to change the way broadband services are treated under law "the most massive expansion of regulatory authority over the Internet ever."

But it was Powell himself in 2002 who categorized cable internet service providers as “information services” under Title I of the Communications Act, a move which not only put the FCC’s ability to protect Internet…