IP: Dubya and (Michael) Powell adopting "trickle-down"broadband policy?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:33:12 -0700
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White House spurns tech programs left over from Clinton presidency

By Yochi J. Dreazen
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 ? Only those with "an unreal understanding" of U.S.
capitalism would expect the poor, minorities and rural residents to
immediately have the same access to the Internet as other Americans, the
nation's top telecommunications regulator has said. Government efforts to
bridge the divide, he added, veer toward "socialization." [sic]

THE SKEPTICISM EXPRESSED last year by Michael Powell, the Bush appointee
who is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plainly seems
to be shared by the rest of the administration. Breaking with Clinton
administration policy, the Bush team has set about quietly dismantling
many programs devoted to ending the so-called digital divide....

Full text at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/716834.asp?0si=-&cp1=1



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