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The Net Neutrality Crack-Up – WSJ
- ethana 12y agonon-paywall through google: https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fholman-jenkins-the-net-neutrality-crack-up-1425080173%3Ftesla%3Dy https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%...
- bediger4000 12y agoThat’s the cable industry, which invested to create the nation’s high-speed broadband platform and now is being punished for it." Oh, puh-leeze. The FCC has always generously subsidized phone company expansions, one way (tax breaks) or another (increased tariffs, a.k.a. bigger phone bills). It's easy to google up examples of this from the recent past: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2147360/fcc-adds-9-billion-to-broadband-subsidy-fund.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2147360/fcc-adds-9-billion-to... http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Takes-100-Million-in-DSL-Subsidies-125474 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Takes-100-Million-in-... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-bro... This is one of the rare times the FCC hasn't decided in favor of monopolies or duopolies, and the really big propaganda guns are coming out. This article includes the word "pusillanimous" - I think the cable industry is really stung that one of their own (FCC Chair Tom Wheeler is an ex-cable-lobbyis) actually did something for non-corporate people.