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Marsha Blackburn: “The Commission's decision in 2015 to reclassify the internet as a public utility was a power grab laced with the irony…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2017
The Commission's decision in 2015 to reclassify the internet as a public utility was a power grab laced with the irony of suffocating the most innovative part of our economy with a 1930s-era law.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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Criticism of the FCC's 2015 net neutrality decision as stifling innovation.

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