A May 24 op-ed by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr titled "Ending Big Tech's Free Ride" makes the sensible suggestion that Big Tech online platforms that generate the most broadband Internet traffic ought to be responsible for contributing to the Universal Service Fund. Below are tweets by Free State Foundation President Randolph May that respond to Commissioner Carr's proposal:
Long-time observers know that the reason @Facebook @Google and other #BigTech firms don't presently pay is rooted in arcane legacy definitional regulatory constructs that may no longer make sense, 25 years later, in today's Internet ecosystem.
— Free State Foundation (@FSFthinktank) May 25, 2021
But, like #Section230, reflexively treating #BigTech as "infants" needing protection now, 25 years after the #TelecomAct, is, well, infantile. So the @BrendanCarrFCC proposal deserves serious consideration. The law can be changed while protecting the proverbial "next Google."
— Free State Foundation (@FSFthinktank) May 25, 2021
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