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The federal government is salivating over the Internet's regulation-free
environment and an estimated $30 billion a year in e-commerce.
Just as the "health care crisis" was used to justify Clinton Care's
scheme to nationalize the health care system, the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) hopes to incite public fears over "privacy" to justify a
wave of regulation by them of the Internet.
This is a page right out of Bill Clinton's playbook: Conduct a poll, declare
a "crisis," create a bureaucracy. In this instance the FTC is
awaiting a Georgetown University poll, which the FTC will use to heighten
public fears of doing business on the Web, and justify the creation of the
first-ever Federal bureaucracy to regulate the Internet.
However, the leading Internet businesses, including IBM, are way ahead of
the bureaucracts and even refuse to advertise on Web sites that doing not
protect online privacy. Internet providers and merchants know it is in their
best interest to safeguard the privacy of their customers. They do not need
Big Brother meddling.
Conservatives must stop this big-government attempt to regulate the Internet.
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