Death Of Community Access
Published: December 12, 2005
Hang down your head Fred Upton, you shame the principle of local control and would supplant it with bureaucratic bungling through federal control over communications systems — now the heart and soul of communities everywhere. The blasphemy under U.S. Rep. Fred Upton's signature is now named the Broadband Internet Transmission Services Act, reputed to be the telecommunications subcommittee's "reform" proposal. Upton is the subcommittee chairman.

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