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Is the FCC Backing 'Fast Lanes' for the Internet?
Federal regulators are unveiling a plan that would create fast and slow lanes for the Internet. How would it affect innovation and a right to information on the web?
By Barbara Bogaev • • 51m ListenFederal regulators are unveiling a plan that would create fast and slow lanes for content on the Internet. Guest host Barbara Bogaev examines how a "pay to play" broadband system would affect innovation, consumers, and the philosophy that everyone has a right to equal access to the flow of information on the web? Also, Iraq votes amid intensified sectarian violence, and Nigeria's stolen girls.
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3 storiesIraq Votes amid Intensified Sectarian Violence
Iraqi voters headed to the polls today in the country's first parliamentary elections since the US troop withdrawal. Voters are choosing from among more than 9,000 candidates vying for just 328 seats. The election comes amid escalating sectarian violence. More than 3,000 people have died in Iraq this year alone.
Read the story8 minAnd the Internet Goes to…the Highest Bidder?
On May 15 the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to announce new rules for the Internet. The FCC is proposing new rules that would create a faster transmission for telecom giants who pay top dollar, like Verizon or Comcast, and a slower one for the little guys.
Read the story34 minWhere Are the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls?
More than two weeks ago a Nigerian militant group known as Boko Haram kidnapped 237 girls from a state school in the northern part of the country. So far the government hasn't been able to rescue the teenagers. Now there are rumors of mass marriages of the girls to their captors.
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