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“applying last century’s public utility regulation to the dynamic mobile broadband ecosystem puts at risk the investment and innovation which characterizes America’s world-leading $196 billion wireless industry”
Nope. Let’s try that again:
“applying last century’s public utility regulation to the dynamic mobile broadband ecosystem puts at risk the industry’s intent to allow itself to be used as a hypodermic needle mainlining advertising and political propaganda directly into your face in exchange for enormous profit”
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Giant industry, including the political industry’s party machines and their dark money empires, are essentially attempting to buy the internet in order to kill any competition they might experience. THAT is what’s going on here. It goes against the entire originating concept of the internet as a free, open and fair marketplace of ideas by directly tying the value, availability and prominence of ideas to the amount of money backing them. If you can’t imagine a world in which giant corporations and political dark money groups actually pay providers to disallowing their competitors any bandwidth, then you’re not paying attention.
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Waitaminute!!! AT&T is regulated? From what???