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Takket

(21,577 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 03:15 PM Jul 2014

Congresswoman bravely stands up for ISPs’ rights to deliver inferior service with no competition

http://bgr.com/2014/07/16/chattanooga-tennessee-municipal-broadband/

However Ars Technica points us to a new quote from Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), whom we last saw slamming Google and Netflix for supposedly mooching off of Comcast, and who is now defending incumbent ISPs’ rights to offer her constituents inferior broadband service without having to face any competition from anyone.

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