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Access to Internet is a public benefit. It should be regulated that way.

November 27, 2017 /

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Last week, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced his intention to eliminate net neutrality in furtherance of the White House’s conviction that Internet access should be an unregulated, private business activity. Many Americans who aren’t tech savvy don’t see this as a big deal. To the contrary, it is a big deal. Their ability to participate in society and the economy is about to get hurt.

To illustrate why this is so, let me analogize to a public benefit that all Americans value: access to electricity.

By Jonathan Aberman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2017/11/27/access-to-internet-is-a-public-benefit-it-should-be-regulated-that-way/?utm_term=.54d533ebdcfd