I support your idea, Mr. Lessig, but good luck with that.
The people working for the FCC have much more political pull and much more incentive to lobby (it's their jobs on the line) than any third party do-gooder. It will take a huge publicity campaign before the costs of doing nothing outweigh the benefit for a given Congress person.
You can always add a new bureaucracy, but it is hard to take away an old one. That's the incentive structure in a bureaucratic democracy.
The people working for the FCC have much more political pull and much more incentive to lobby (it's their jobs on the line) than any third party do-gooder. It will take a huge publicity campaign before the costs of doing nothing outweigh the benefit for a given Congress person.
You can always add a new bureaucracy, but it is hard to take away an old one. That's the incentive structure in a bureaucratic democracy.