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My appearance on BBC World News discussing Net Neutrality


I appeared on the BBC World News program Global with Matthew Amroliwala on February 5th, 2015 and spoke about Net Neutrality and the new FCC proposals. I tried to make the point that Net Neutrality is a symptom and the real issue is (lack of) competition.

The clip below is courtesy the BBC.





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