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How Neoliberalism Seized the Internet w/ Dan Greene

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Changes in Telecom Policy in the United States

In the book, you describe how this would kind of break from some previous ways of regulating tele communications in the united states. The shift can seem quite subtle, in part because the administration, especially in 92, 90 threes, it goes back and forth in language. But what you see overtime is that the executive branch, in particular, moves telle communications away from a goal of universal service to something like universal access. This was then written into law, most notably in 19 96 with the reform of the 19 34 teler communications act.

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