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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?

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Apr 30, 2014 • 51m Listen

    Federal 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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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Benjamin Gottlieb

      Reporter, Fill-in Host

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Gideon Brower

      Independent Producer

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