The FCC's marching orders from Congress a year ago were to develop a plan to spur broadband access and adoption across the United States. But rather than pave the way for competing service providers to continue extending broadband according to what people and companies actually demand, the 360-page report released this month has the FCC telling us what we need. In the process, the agency is getting into healthcare, energy, and other public policy areas outside its domain, and it's exposing itself to every special interest under the sun.
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