It's safe to say that communications and information services have never been more important to the nation's economy, and to our own personal lives, than they are today. So, as we begin a new year, not to mention the third decade of the twenty-first century, it's a good time to consider proper regulatory policy for these key Digital Age market sectors.
For my purposes here, I have in mind wireless and wireline broadband Internet services and websites, and broadcast, cable, and satellite services. In other words, services that either are currently regulated by the Federal Communications Commission or other regulatory bodies, or which have been in the recent past, or websites like Google, Facebook, Amazon which are the subject of present debates regarding whether their practices should be subject to more or less regulation.
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