The telecom industry is using lies to keep a good regulator off the FCC.
David Weil would have enforced federal labor law leading the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, so Republicans killed his nomination.
Amazon and Facebook took aim at Lina Khan, Biden’s appointee as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, arguing thatfrom FTC cases against those companies because she had been critical of them in the past. Subsequently she co-founded and led Public Knowledge, a telecommunications consumer advocacy organization. She’s held fellowships at USC and an adjunct professorship at Georgetown and is widely respected all along the ideological spectrum.Column: Senate’s rejection of a Labor Department nominee is horrible news for American workers
One Country’s campaign is rolling out in six states, including Arizona and West Virginia — a clear signal that it’s aimed at Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the cabal that sank the Weil nomination. In the very next sentence , Sohn cited research showing that “the country’s broadband adoption problem is three times higher in urban areas than rural.”underprivileged communities, not just rural — and saying in effect that internet providers were getting a pass on solving the broader problem.
The harvest of that approach, as she pointed out, was that more than 100 million Americans are left without broadband internet access “at a time when, if you don’t have it, you’re literally screwed — you can’t do your schoolwork ... you can’t telework, you can’t connect with family or friends.” “Those networks need to be built,” she said, but the FCC leaders “don’t like giving money to poor people or poor schools and libraries... They have made it as difficult as possible to give out the poor people’s money ... and made it really easy for rural broadband companies, which tend to be monopolies, to basically suck at the government teat to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.”
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