FCC Commissioner: US playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet"

Pretty passionate words for a man a lot of people might regard as a bureaucrat.

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps in a speech at the YearlyKos convention is reported to have talked like a "man with a fire in his guts". He said, the state of Internet and broadband access in the US is "so poor that every citizen in the country ought to be outraged."

The Commissioner was expressing his concern regarding "a small number of corporate gatekeepers" who control the public's access to information, an arrangement that threatens to "invert the democratic genius of the Internet."

The Design Nine/Andrew Cohill recommendations for Northwest PA advocate an "open systems" model. One of the key questions we'll need to address is what does "open system" really mean in both the short and long-term.

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