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Al Franken: ‘They’re coming after the Internet’
Mike Zapler – Politico, 21 Mar 2011

US Sen. Al Franken claimed Monday [14 Mar 2011] that big corporations are “hoping to destroy” the Internet and said Comcast is looking to change the basic architecture of the Web by implementing a pricing scheme that allows moneyed interests to pay for faster speeds, leaving everyone else behind… “Unfortunately one thing these big corporations have that we don’t is the ability to purchase favorable political outcomes,” he said. “Big telecoms have lots of [lobbyists], and good ones, too. … The end of net neutrality would benefit no one but these corporate giants.”

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