Reclassifying the Internet as a common carrier would...

Reclassifying the Internet as a common carrier would be “a disaster,” said NCTA in a blog post Wednesday (http://bit.ly/YcfLrk). The association has begun a print and digital ad campaign (including in Communications Daily) “to show how laws that were originally written for telephone lines in 1934 are totally ill equipped to handle modern broadband networks in 2014,” said NCTA. The ads direct readers to NCTA’s Title II page (http://bit.ly/1uneg4o), headlined “Net Disaster, not Net Neutrality.” Title II would turn the Internet into “a slogging, permission-based government utility,” NCTA said. “Title II reclassification would allow for the very things Title II advocates are most afraid of."