My time in Silicon Valley taught me a particularly valuable lesson: The Internet works well because the government was not involved. Needless to say, President Obama’s proposal last week to federally regulate the Internet like a 1930s-era outdated telephone service is so worrisome. I worked for some years in Silicon Valley in the analytics industry, helping hundreds of companies speed their products and services to market. In those years during the Obama administration, my clients, primarily online retailers (both superstores and mom-and-pop shops), never discussed broadband or net neutrality.
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