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ACLU Study Wary of Broadband Providers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lets-proxy-all-our-users dept.

An anonymous reader says "The ACLU recently had a study done that suggests that broadband access is a threat to internet freedom. Their study focuses on the control available to broadband providers who don't have to deal with the same level of competition or regulation as ISP providers. The result is the ability to radically control internet access combined with the omnipresent corporate incentive for profit, whatever the cost to free speech."

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  1. Reports in PDF - why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to read these reports. Too bad they're in PDF. Yes, I'm lazy, but the point is, so are lots of people - I don't want to download a PDF, navigate to it, read it, then remember to delete it so it doesn't clutter up my drive and come back to the site. If it's a text report, and you're going to present it on your website, why on earth not save it as HTML so everybody can quickly get to it and read it?

    If someone writes a PDF plug-in for Lynx, let me know. Meanwhile, I guess I'll wait to see if someone translates it here.

  2. Re:Peekabooty by repetty · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "but the U.S. Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" because of a number of things. They stopped travellers and demanded to see ID/papers/etc. The U.S. is doing that now. They controlled information flow and communications. The U.S. is doing that now."

    Yeah, so are sooo right.

    The US today is just like cold-war USSR.

  3. Pink page of death!! by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Answered by: CmdrTaco
    Last Modified: 7/02/02

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    - posted by poopbot: for the crapflooder in all of us

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