When the FCC adopted net neutrality rules earlier this year, Chairman Tom Wheeler assured skeptics that rules regulating broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) “do not regulate Internet content.”
This theory rests on a seriously flawed (though all too common) understanding of the First Amendment. The troubling fact is that the FCC’s new regulations governing ISPs – the companies that deliver Internet content to people’s homes – threaten basic liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.
Wheeler’s interpretation of the First Amendment’s prohibition against laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press," treats the freedoms of speech and the press as if they were one and the same. But the Founders recognized that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are distinct concepts that both need clear protection. Speech refers primarily to communications themselves (e.g., the spoken or written word) and the press refers to the technologies and processes that produce mass communications.
By Fred B. Campbell, Jr.
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