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May 4, 2010

Report: FCC Plans to Keep Broadband Deregulated
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Advocates for a free and open internet are expressing alarm over reports
that Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski is
leaning toward keeping broadband deregulated and not reclassifying it as
a a telecommunications service. Josh Silver of the group Free Press
said: “Such a decision would destroy Net Neutrality. It would deeply
undermine the FCC’s ability to ensure universal Internet access for
rural, low-income and disabled Americans. It will undermine the FCC’s
ability to protect consumers from price-gouging and invasions of
privacy." Silver warned that unless the FCC re-establishes authority
over the nation’s Internet service providers, companies like Comcast,
AT&T and Verizon will be able to slow down, block or censor content at
will.



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