Ben Sperry of the International Center for Law and Economics argues that, contra the FCC, broadband access is not a social-justice issue:
Not content that market incentives would be sufficient to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) don’t leave money on the table by choosing not to invest in minority communities, and despite lacking any data or economic models that would suggest otherwise, the Federal Communications Commission is pushing new rules to guarantee “equal access to broadband internet” by “preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin.”
This is, quite frankly, social-justice reasoning run amok at what is supposed to be a technocratic agency tasked with deploying scarce taxpayer dollars to expand broadband access nationwide.
Read the whole thing here.