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Koch Brothers Are Cities' New Obstacle to Building Broadband

Koch Brothers Are Cities' New Obstacle to Building Broadband

Koch Brothers Are Cities' New Obstacle to Building Broadband

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

December 18, 201710m 52s

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Show Notes

The three Republican commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency's legal authority over high-speed Internet providers.They claim that competition will protect consumers, that the commission shouldn't interfere in the "dynamic internet ecosystem," and that they are "protecting internet freedom." Now that the vote is done, the agency has little to do but mess around with spectrum allocations. The mega-utility of the 21st century officially has no regulator.

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