Former FCC chairman Michael Powell is up on the stage at the Freedom to Connect conference right now, and he warns the tech elite crowd here not to
be naive about the dangers of asking Congress for legislation on Net
Neutrality. As he explains:The legislative process does not work well when it has a weak understanding
of innovation and tech policy. You are talking about 535 members who need
to to get this. They have a very shallow understanding [of Net Neutrality].
If you go give them a quiz about the seven layers of the Internet, good
luck.
David Lazurus has more on the proposed legislation.