Internet TV Rules May Need an Overhaul
24.09.2012 – Questions about the wisdom of extending the rules that govern broadcasters and cable and satellite operators to Internet TV services, or, alternatively, rolling back regulations on traditional providers to level the playing field, figure to loom large in the next session of Congress.
A panel discussion among media experts convened by the nonprofit Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, designed as a briefing for Hill staffers, offered a preview of the coming debate.
“The nature of this problem is that we have a classic sort of asymmetrical regulation problem, or an unlevel playing field problem, that’s developing in this country because we have very heavily regulated markets converging with very unregulated markets, and very disruptive ones at that,” says Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.
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