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Network Neutrality for a) Broadband or b) Internet?

Posted by Barlow Keener

The December 23, 2010 Network Neutrality order, "Preserving the Open Internet," is the FCC’s attempt to regulate the problems created by the lack of broadband provider competition to the home. Commissioner Copps framed the problem in his statement: Allowing … monopoly or duopoly broadband Internet access service providers ­to exercise unfettered control over Americans’ access [...]