This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 9th, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

By treating the internet like a utility instead of the dynamic competitive arena it is, we may break the internet.

So says Baron Zocca, president of Tech Freedom,

to help policy makers engaged in the fight to keep the internet free and open.

Tech Freedom has launched the website, don't break. in the fight to keep the internet free and open.

Tech Freedom has launched the website,

Don't Break the Net.

We spoke yesterday.

So the FCC is trying to regulate net neutrality

for the second time.

It passed rules in 2010 that the court struck down earlier this year

and it's now trying to replace them with very similar rules that would pass

muster under another legal challenge. Many of those who have been pushing for net neutrality

regulation have argued that the FCC should go further and find a new basis, a legal basis

for justifying its rules.

And they want the FCC specifically to reopen a basic question about how broadband is defined

under the Communications Act.

And that's what we call Title II.

So essentially they want the FCC to undo the decision that Bill Clinton's FCC made in the

late 1990s to draw a clear line between title two regulation, traditional regulation of AT&T and monopoly

telephone networks on the one hand and the internet on the other.

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