So Congress rewrote the telecom act in 1992 to ban companies affiliated with cable-TV operators from discriminating against rivals.

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This isn't a semantic difference to Stevens, who seems determined to not repeat the errors of the 1996 Telecom Act.

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The 1996 Telecom Reform Act failed precisely because it did not account for rational, self-interested behavior.

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The only way to undo the 1996 Telecom Reform Act debacle is to let the big phone companies own their facilities, outright.

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The Telecom Reform Act of 1996 was written with every good intention.

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The prime target of the protest is the Communications Decency Act , the part of the telecom bill that would outlaw the transmission of sexually explicit materials to minors.

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Under the Act, the Secretary of State, as well as British Telecom, could licence other operators to run telecom systems.

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