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Is Net Neutrality Doomed to Failure?

By Carly Carioli
Boston Phoenix | April 11, 2011
The debate over net neutrality hasn't gotten much smarter since 2006, when Ted Stevens, of Alaska, opposed the Net Neutrality Act by infamously declaring that the Internet was "a series of tubes" -- but it has intensified along predictable partisan fault lines.
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Tags: net neutrality, Congress, media, internet

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