Public Knowledge wrote an interesting post about what the election means for the future of the Internet. Specifically, the post looked at issues likely to come up during the next few years.
One important issue is copyright reform, according to the post:
1) there is unlikely to be a bill that strengthens copyright enforcement that moves through either house of Congress without a thorough debate; and 2) there are now more members and Senators looking at the possibility of rolling back some of the relentless march towards stronger and longer copyrights.
Video may also be a top issue, specifically some sort of deregulation, Public Knowledge noted:
…retransmission consent reform (including possibly the elimination of distant signal and other protections for broadcasters), the elimination of the compulsory license for cable and satellite and a provision dealing with the increasing use of, and lack of transparency with regard to, data caps.
Finally, the US Court of Appeals in the DC Circuit is set to take up a case about whether or not Verizon can control broadband internet access. According to the post:
An FCC loss on those grounds will not only invalidate the rules, but will call into question whether the FCC will have any power to protect against anticompetitive and anti-consumer actions by broadband providers.
For more information and a more thorough examination, read the rest of the post here.
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Sara Inés Calderón is a journalist and writer who lives between Texas and California. Follow her on Twitter @SaraChicaD.
