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Roger Wicker: “Today, policymakers have a choice in front of them, a sharp choice. Do they want to protect an open Internet, or do they…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
Today, policymakers have a choice in front of them, a sharp choice. Do they want to protect an open Internet, or do they want broader government engineering of the Internet ecosphere?
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker emphasizes the choice between open Internet and government control.

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