As Richard Adler, a fellow at the Institute for the Future, wrote in recode last week, when the Telecom Act was written and passed in 1996, Amazon was just a year old online bookstore, Google’s founders were graduate students at Stanford and Mark Zuckerberg “was 12 years old and in junior high school.” There have a few changes in the eco-system of communications and media since then.
Should the ’96 Telecom Act Be Updated or Superseded?
