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I am a fan of muni broadband as a competitive alternative to the incumbents. But wouldn’t that enable a demagogue mayor to issue censorship directives via Execu

• orthecreedence 9y ago
  If said mayor never wants to see another term, I guess it's within the realm of possibility. Also, at that point, the situation is the same as now (with one organization calling all the shots) but at least it's contained to one town.
• acdha 9y ago
  They could theoretically but there's a big difference because that's in the public sphere and subject to much higher scrutiny. A major making that decision would have to answer about their legal authority to do so; public records laws would apply to anything used in that process; the local council and prosecutors, etc. would have an easier time getting information and acting on it, and the local citizens would be able to vote them out in the next election. That's not to say that this works perfectly everywhere but the framework is setup to be a lot more open than the workings of a private company.