S. Derek Turner: America's Broadband Failure Is a 'Policy Failure'
Free Press, May 14, 2009
By S. Derek Turner
America's broadband failures are the result of policy failures. The FCC dismantled the legal framework responsible for creating the open Internet and left nothing in its place but thin assurances that what once was, would always be. And while other countries implemented the broadband policies that we once championed, America's policy was just to cross our fingers and hope for the best.
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