“What would you think of a world in which people couldn’t afford to look online for jobs and kids couldn’t afford to do their online schoolwork?

For that matter, would you be troubled if news and information about some controversial matter became tougher to find online because the major providers of internet service would just as soon you didn’t hear of it?

Though all of us, as taxpayers, paid to help create the internet, the big providers are eager to harness and own it, treating it as their own personal profit stream. They want to write the rules.”

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