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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Big surprise: Ex-FCC chief defends the cable
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Big surprise: Ex-FCC chief defends the cable industry
http://j.mp/15n9Ge5 (L.A. Times)
"The fact is that America is falling behind the rest of the world in
broadband "choice, availability, and quality." The digital divide
between our rich and poor is getting wider. The reason is lax
regulation by the agency Powell headed for more than four years before
finding his calling as a flack for the industry he was supposed to be
regulating. He gives the game away in his letter by pointing out that
we've achieved our mediocre record "without the massive taxpayer
subsidies that financed broadband networks in Europe and Asia." Right.
His clients don't want the government to compete with them, but they
don't want to spend the money to make the U.S. first in the world with
the fastest and most accessible Internet service."
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