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January 18, 2014 04:00 pm PST
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Tim Wu on FCC's net neutralitydisaster
Tim Wu is the law professor and activist who coined the term "net neutrality" -- the principle that ISPs should get you the data you request, as efficiently as they know how, without deliberately slowing down some sites unless they've paid bribes for "preferred carriage." The FCC had made a halfhearted and legally doomed rule to protect American net neutrality, refusing to use its full regulatory power for fear of offending the powerful telcoms corporations it is meant to regulate.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Y69SRcun4-o/story01.htm
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