Jeff Chester
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Jeff Chester
courts federal form instead internet mass private reduced reflecting speech threatened
Instead of the Internet reflecting what the federal courts not long ago called 'the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed,' it's now threatened to be reduced to what AT&T called its private pipes.
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For consumers in states like Michigan, you'll have fewer companies offering fewer services and you'll see rates for phone, video and the Internet continue to creep up. In the absence of strong regulation and safeguards this is a bad deal for competition and consumers.