FCC Commish - US Playing 'Russian Roulette' with Broadband

LarryBoy writes "In a speech given at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps lambasted US broadband policy, saying that the US is 'playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet and more traditional media."' Copps also took issue with an op-ed piece ('Broadband Baloney') by fellow commissioner Robert McDowell last week. 'In his speech, Copps didn't mention McDowell by name, but he did claim that broadband in the US is "so poor that every citizen in the country ought to be outraged." Back when then OECD said that we were number four in the world, he said, no one objected to its methodology. Copps also had fighting words for those who blame the US broadband problems on our less-dense population; Canada, Norway, and Sweden are ranked above us, but all are less dense than the US. Besides, this argument implies that broadband is absolutely super within American urban areas. Copps noted, though, that his own broadband connection in Washington, DC was "nothing compared to Seoul."'"

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Heh

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I told you it's the Federal Communist Commission http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=258305&cid=200 64027.

I wouldn't expect people to "be outraged" anytime soon either. People keep getting fed shit and being told it tastes just like democracy. It's gotten to the point where you can't wipe your ass without congressional approval.

You're not going to see a government (including an FCC) that is for the people until it starts acting in the best interests of the people.

The companies that buy Washington vote with dollars, everything else is just an opinion.