California’s do-everything agency thinks it can regulate the Internet. It shouldn’t.

Governor Newsom’s recent appointee to lead the California Public Utilities Commission, Marybel Batjer, has been described by her colleagues as an unrivaled fixer and a “Jedi Knight when it comes to slashing bureaucratic red tape.” She led the Governor’s strike force to modernize and reinvent the DMV. Batjer is the perfect pick to take on an even bigger challenge: reforming the state’s most overburdened and over-extended agency.
For those unfamiliar with the PUC, it&