ABSTRACT
At the start of Julius Genachowski’s tenure as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Barack Obama appointee indicated that he wanted to keep broadband Internet services deregulated at the same time that watchdog groups questioned his agencies’ eff ectiveness in keeping close scrutiny over key companies providing access to the Web. Meanwhile, supporters on the topic of net neutrality such as Google invited a shift to the FCC authority and stricter rules as a means of keeping the Internet open. At the same time a number of high tech interests settled down after a fairly radical shift in both the media and the nation’s economy had taken place.2
