David Cay Johnston: "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind"

David Cay Johnston: "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind":

 "Twenty years ago, we were told we were going to get something magical called "the information superhighway." And we paid over a half-trillion dollars in rate increases to telephone companies and cable companies to get this high-speed internet with fiber-optic service, where all the books in the Library of Congress and all the images in them, 22 million volumes, in the blink of an eye could literally be moved around the world. Well, we paid for it, but we don’t have it"


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