How Might a Democrat-Controlled Congress Affect Media, Internet, Communications and Entertainment?
So, I feel a little like Rip Van Winkle. I leave America one day in late October and return early November to the dawning of a new political era. Although I was only out of America for two weeks, the beginning of an epic change in the way in which government views and governs the Internet and communications may have occurred in my absence. I must confess a little delinquency on the policy front the last few months. Frankly, I have been so monomaniacally focused on Internet video and my international ventures, that I have not kept close tabs on Beltway politics, particularly as it relates to VoIP regulation. To some extent, I had given up on America and the prospect that it would develop a regulatory framework that might enable Internet entrepreneurs. In my mind, other countries have been supplanting the US as the havens for Internet innovation. The midterm election, however, has reminded me that, in a democracy, there is always room for a rethink, a do-over, an opportunity for a dramat
