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Quote of the Day
February 14, 2014

'This is a company that has already been caught blocking internet traffic. But it’s clear their long-term plan is to take a free and open internet and turn it into something like cable TV, where they pick the channels and they speed them up and slow them down based on who pays them the most.

'If you hate your cable guy now, you are going to hate your cable guy on steroids.'

Craig Aaron, president of internet
rights lobby group Free Press, on
the proposed the merger of cable
giant Comcast and Time Warner
Cable