COMMENTARY, continued: “Rent-seekers” would sell out our Internet freedoms just to maintain their subsidies

By Timothy Denton

PETER MILLER'S ARTICLE last week seeks to make it look reasonable that the government should regulate the right of people to upload video to the Internet. His proposal – or more like, his unstated assumption – is that people should need to be licensed under the Broadcasting Act in order to post video to the net.It is not a reasonable, practical or sensible idea.Since he knows this as well as I do, his article seeks to confuse the issue at many levels.The Internet is regulated as speech or printing, and is subject to all the constraints of the printed word....