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California Proposed A Law Making Broadband Affordable For Poor People. Telecom Lobbyists Have Already Destroyed It.
Last January, Democratic California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner introduced the California Affordable Home Internet Act (AB 353), which mandated that large ISPs in the state needed to provide broad…
But numerous sources in and out of government tell me that Boerner has introduced a long list of telecom-industry-friendly amendments behind closed doors that destroy the whole point of the proposed law. Reporters have found that big ISPs routinely charge low income and minority customers higher prices for lower-quality service. These telecom giants are terrified of federal or state governments doing absolutely anything to seriously address a broadband market failure monopolization problem they themselves created.
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