> The FCC is functionally a bureaucracy that grants licenses to discrete chunks of very scarce communications
I'm pointing out the FCC has historically done a lot more than just issuing licenses for RF, and that communications by wire have been a part of their purview since it's founding.
I do agree their roles and rules about what to do with regulating those wires have changed over all those years.
I'm not telling you that it would somehow be illegitimate for Congress to pass a law delegating to the FCC authority to ensure that ISPs provide FRAND access to different streaming platforms (or whatever) over their IP "dial tone". But Congress pretty clearly has not done so, and just because we might think it's a good idea doesn't mean the FCC can just make that authority up.
> The FCC is functionally a bureaucracy that grants licenses to discrete chunks of very scarce communications
I'm pointing out the FCC has historically done a lot more than just issuing licenses for RF, and that communications by wire have been a part of their purview since it's founding.
I do agree their roles and rules about what to do with regulating those wires have changed over all those years.