Remember the Democratic campaign cartoon that showed George Bush throwing an old woman out of a wheelchair? Michael Copps says that his opponents on the FCC are going to throw the Internet out of a wheelchair.

I am worried that we could be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it. And that maybe we will never experience the Internet as it might one day be... A lot of forces are converging out there, including not just new technologies that create opportunity but new technologies that facilitate closure and control. Economic policies that often seem to favor consolidation are converging with regulatory policies that eagerly pave the way. These are powerful currents. Our much vaunted digital migration could end far short of its destination.

There is not one shred of evidence in its favor. Once again, Michael Powell is right, and his critics are wrong. I feel sorry for Powell having to deal with the unsubstantiated demagoguery of someone like Copps.