Usage tracking is through a registration process. They are beginning to be able to weed out all the casual visitors and get some meaningful information from the registrations. They view their Internet service as an extension of their 90-year history of bringing buyers and sellers together. Free Speech and the Internet With passage of the Telecommunications Reform Act and its Communications Decency Amendment, the government is treading on shaky ground, in the view of many media people. What's really going on, says Dean David Rubin of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, is that the government is regulating the Internet out of fear of its power.
Recent events indicate a trend toward the latter position.
Interference - in the absence of government regulation, the use of frequencies and scrambling of signals would quickly be out of control. Radio and TV come into the home uninvited - although this assumption overlooks the capacity of the individual to exercise control via the power switch. Logically, these same four assumptions should be applied to the Internet in determining the appropriate regulatory posture. Clearly not, since anyone who wants to can open a Web site. No static or bleeding of one site into another has been observed.