Revolution in Internet commerce is "Profoundly Pro-Consumer"; Pitofsky says Federal Trade Commission Chairman.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 2000-US FTC: Revolution in Internet commerce is "Profoundly Pro-Consumer"; Pitofsky says Federal Trade Commission Chairman (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10022000 Robert Pitofsky said today that the revolution in Internet commerce "surpasses anything we have seen since the communications and transportation developments at the end of the 19th century.

The challenge to the private and public sector is to encourage that revolution, but contain the excesses that revolutions often produce," he said. In his speech, "Electronic Commerce and Beyond: Challenges of the New Digital Age," at a Woodrow Wilson Center meeting sponsored by the Division of International Studies, Pitofsky said, "We see electronic commerce as a...