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PopPolitics: AT&T’s ‘Big Mistake’ Came Amid a Scramble to Connect with Trump (Listen)

WASHINGTON — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says that AT&T’s decision to hire Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, shortly after the inauguration, was a “big mistake.” What wasn’t all that unusual, however, for AT&T and other companies, was the scramble to find any connection to the Trump administration after so many in D.C. assumed that Hillary…
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Statement of Gigi Sohn on the FCC’s December 14 Vote to Abdicate its Responsibility to Protect Consumers and Competition and Repeal the 2015 Net Neutrality Rules

On Thursday December 14, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will approve by a 3-2 partisan vote an order that would reclassify broadband Internet access as a deregulated “information service” and repeal all but one of the FCC’s 2015 network neutrality rules, leaving in place only a transparency rule. The following…
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1A: Ask the FCC

From late night TV to your Twitter feed, the Federal Communications Commission’s vote on net neutrality is a hot topic. The FCC has been reversing and revising a number of regulations, bringing a new level of attention to a federal body that’s usually not the subject of so much public debate. We’ll start off with…
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