No broadband stimulus money for usage cappers & net neutrality foes

May 12, 2009

One of the biggest anti-consumer disasters of the last 15 years was President Clinton’s signing of the 1996 Communications Act. This bought and paid for legislation deregulated a major part of the telecommunications sector with the idea that the “free market” would somehow provide sufficient checks and balances to protect against media concentration, monopoly abuse, and locking out technological advancement wherever robust competition was unlikely.

How’s that working out for you?...