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Peter Welch: “Why change the existing regime where everyone agrees there is an open internet?”

On the recordJuly 24, 2017
Why change the existing regime where everyone agrees there is an open internet?
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Welch questions the need to alter the current open internet regulations.

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