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Cities and states take up the battle for an open internet

  • Written by David Elliot Berman, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Communities across the U.S. are taking network construction into their own hands.T.Dallas/Shutterstock.com

Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon are free to slow down, block or prioritize internet traffic as they wish, without interference by the federal government. That’s the effect of an October ruling by the D.C. Circuit...

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