Exposing the Truth About the FCC's Proposed Video Set Top Box Rule
26 February 2016
Seth Cooper, Senior Fellow at The Free State Foundation, discusses what is wrong with the Federal Communications Commission's proposed rule to "unlock set top boxes," how it is going to impact programming and why the government should not be allowed to pick winners and losers.
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