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[ NNSquad ] Big surprise: Ex-FCC chief defends the cable industry
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." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad