The sound and fury over the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to exert regulatory power over the Internet largely ignores one important reality.
The legal footing for the authority the FCC has tried to claim with its Tuesday vote is so shaky as to make these rules a tenuous proposition at best.
It would be prudent for Congress to study the issue in hearings and come up with proposed changes in law that would give the FCC the legal wherewithal to take a light approach to regulating the Internet.
Of course, the political reality of Republicans taking control of the House might not make that idea very feasible, but that doesn't change the fact that Congress is the appropriate venue for the matter.
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