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Community broadband protections are back in Congress.
Rep. Anna Eshoo and Sen. Cory Booker have reintroduced the Community Broadband Act, which removes prohibitions on building local broadband networks. Makena Kelly talked to them about a previous version in 2021, along with interviewing other advocates of expanding community broadband protections:
“To tell people who are willing and able to invest the money in good fiber infrastructure for their residents that they can’t do it, but also that the incumbent ISPs will not provide it for them either? It’s just ridiculous.”
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