FCC Effective Competition Rule Change Pro-Consumer, Says FSF

It’s an “indisputable reality” that the video market has changed “dramatically” since the 1992 Cable Act, said Free State Foundation President Randolph May in a blog post Monday praising FCC adoption of a nationwide rebuttable presumption of cable competition (see 1506040053). “Considering the competition that has existed in the video marketplace for many years, the Commission could have -- and should have -- taken this deregulatory step long ago,” May said. “Deregulatory presumptions” like the FCC rule change are pro-competition and pro-consumer, he said.