May 27, 2010 11:43AM # Remember, the FCC Is Our National Censor By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) --- SHARE Amid charge and countercharge about who is shilling for whom in the debate over Internet regulation, Peter Suderman has the right focus in [a short piece on *Reason*’s Hit & Run blog](http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/26/a-federal-censor-for-the-web). The Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman is claiming that he only wants to regulate the Internet’s infrastructure, but one of his colleagues, Commissioner Michael Copps, is non-denying that he wants to censor the Internet. > There may be exceptions, but it’s usually pretty safe to assume that anytime a politician or bureaucrat dodges a question while calling for “a national discussion about” the proposal at hand, what he or she really means is, “I want to indicate that I support this idea without actually going on record as supporting it.” *The FCC does censorship*. It’s unfortunate to see willful disregard of this by the folks wanting to install the FCC as the Internet’s regulator. ##### Related Tags [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).