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With FCC's net neutrality ruling, the US could lose its lead in online consumer protection

  • Written by Sascha Meinrath, Director of X-Lab; Palmer Chair in Telecommunications, Pennsylvania State University
imageThree of these smiling people undid U.S. consumer protections online.Federal Communications Commission

The internet may be an international system of interconnecting networks sharing a rough global consensus about the technical details of communicating through them – but each country manages its own internet environment independently. As the...

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