Lazy Geisha, August 14, 2007
By Nina Aoki

It was just about one year ago that I first became aware of efforts by the nation's largest telecommunications companies to capitalize on a 2005 Federal Communications Commission decision which would have allowed these same telco giants, many which own the physical internet backbone and also provide internet service to millions of customers, to gut the most basic foundation of a free and open i

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