Jim DeMint
Your Conservative Voice in the Senate
Do you want government controlling the Internet too?
November 5th, 2009

I believe government has already inserted itself too far into our lives and too far into the operations of America’s businesses. We certainly don’t need government regulating the Internet and broadband communications too. But that’s what FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his Democratic colleagues are pushing. They believe the Internet is a failed market in which neither entrepreneurs nor consumers are treated fairly.

Last week Senator Orrin Hatch and I published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where we provided a counter argument to Mr. Genachowski. We believe the Internet is growing and sprouting new industry and businesses because it is one of the only aspects of our economy free from government regulation.

Senator Hatch and I wrote:

“If there is a perfect encapsulation of the success of Washington’s current hands-off approach to the Internet, it’s the popular “There’s an app for thatâ€