Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What am I talking about? Well pull up a chair folks... ... it all goes back to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 back before millennials had their first avocado toast. The main idea here was to shift from a price regulation paradigm to a competitive one in telecom. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 14, 2020 Hibernated

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@MattZeitlin @JakeAnbinder They’re also just engaged in a lot of bad budget math. If you compare the US to Denmark it’s pretty obvious police departments are not the reason we don’t have a generous welfare state. — PolitiTweet.org

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25 years later, this has largely not worked out (which is a story for its own day) but a congressman named Ed Markey got a provision put into the law mandating that cable TV providers make it possible to decode their signals with third-party set-top boxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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