Myth: The government should regulate the Internet to ensure that the big telecom corporations don’t limit users’ freedoms.
Truth: The First Amendment states that Congress shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The internet is a combination of the press and free speech (on an a new technological level), thus the government does not have the power to regulate it except in cases of non-protected speech such as obscenity.
Where regulations are created by the agencies rather than congress, this is also a violation of the “separation of powers” principle and Article I’s grant of “all legislative power” to the congress, not the executive branch.
