Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. At its deepest technical level, the internet was designed to avoid the central points of control that now command it. Broadband companies that were investing great sums to roll out faster and faster internet service to Americans were becoming wary of running an anything-goes network. spokesman, said broadband companies would still be covered by antitrust laws and other rules meant to prevent anticompetitive behavior. Broadband companies are taking a similar line.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2017 09:56 UTC