How this would affect non-American users? Any idea? Would people in Africa
be
asked a fee for posting something or itīs "just" the issue of broadband?
Alas!
So many things decided in the American congress affecting people worldwide.
I
wish "we" had some representatives there.
David
Peg Griffin writes:
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