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FCC “Corruption” Gutted Internet Neutrality
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Dec 2017
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The media advocacy group Free Press will go to court to reverse the FCC’s gutting of internet neutrality protections, said spokesperson Tim Karr. “This is a very corrupt process,” said Karr. “It involves individuals who are captured by industry.”

Victor Pickard, a professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees. Over the past ten months, he said, the FCC commissioners “basically have satisfied a long-standing wish list for the telecommunications and broadcast industries.”

Internet Neutrality

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