Once upon a time, the law governed what telephone companies could and couldn't do to affect the content of telephone calls sent over the network. The answer, basically, was nothing. The Communications Act provided that it would be "unlawful" for carriers to "subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage."
Over time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has whittled away the protections consumers had from the discrimination the law was supposed to...
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