How the TeleCom Industry Plans to Take Over the Internet in Four Easy Steps

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Published on Friday, July 2, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

How the TeleCom Industry Plans to Take Over the Internet in Four Easy Steps

by Timothy Karr

Have you heard about the battle over the Internet?

It's a power grab that involves lawyers, lobbyists, unscrupulous legislators, phony front groups and the most powerful telecommunications companies in the world.

They've aligned themselves against the rest of us -- the millions of Americans who use the Internet every day, in increasingly inventive ways.

They've opened their wallets to Washington. It's an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars and it's being made right now by AT&T, Comcast and Verizon -- the companies that provide broadband access to the vast majority of Americans.