Casting a Broad Net: The Federal Communication Commission's Preemption of State Broadband Internet Regulation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|As a comparatively modern innovation, the internet has become fundamental in our personal and professional lives. With increasing frequency we are introduced to new innovations in internet-based technologies that seek to make our lives easier socially, politically, and economically; changing how we consume our news, transact business, engage in communication, social connections and interactions, relax with entertainment, and even how we shop for our weekly groceries. As just one measure for the total pervasiveness of the internet today, digital ad spending in the United States is expected to finally overtake traditional ad spending (print, television, and radio, combined) in the United States in 2019 with estimated expenditures of $129.34 billion or approximately 54.2 percent of all U.S. ad spending.