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Congresswoman says Google and Netflix are the real broadband moochers

22
May
2014

People generally like Google and Netflix and they generally really, really hate their ISP. However, The Hill reports that Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) would like to correct your thinking: You see, it’s broadband companies such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable who are the real innovative producers out there while the content-producing companies are “free-riding” moochers. In fact, Blackburn is so incensed at Google and Netflix for supposedly demanding free rides on ISPs’ pipes that she hinted that she’d support something that’s generally unthinkable for most Republicans: A tax increase on big tech companies who support net neutrality. “Since they seem so ready and willing to rely on regulations to help them with their business models, how would you recommend that

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