‘Net Neutrality’ Puts FCC at Center of Storm

in the news | May 14, 2014

Washington Post

Marvin Ammori:

Silicon Valley is “very frustrated,” said Marvin Ammori, a technology-policy consultant who helped organize a letter of protest to the FCC from more than 100 tech start-ups and big companies including Google, Facebook and Yahoo.

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