Daily Digest 6/5/2019 (Broadband and Unemployment)
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Wed, 06/05/2019
Broadband speed matters: unemployment rates are about 0.26 percentage points lower in counties with high speeds
Congress knows the Internet is broken. It’s time to start fixing it.
The "Internet is broken." That, according to Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), is the sentiment animating a bipartisan antitrust review of technology titans in the House of Representatives. He is right to initiate the effort. But exploring the particulars of so sweeping a contention may take years. Meanwhile, there’s one broken thing Congress already knows it has to fix. A small group of companies has substantial control over a massive part of American life. This control has come with costs, from the flourishing of online disinformation to a flood of security breaches.