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Its also hard to discount how much American's distrust the government. "Send all your data through a government owned server" is going to have a negative knee-j
by dahfizz 6y ago
Its also hard to discount how much American's distrust the government. "Send all your data through a government owned server" is going to have a negative knee-jerk reaction from many/most people.
- zionic 6y agoI like it because now my ISP is bound by the 1st amendment.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean you should have some level of reaction at the thought of being subjected to network policy set by the US government. Encryption isn't magic and you're still giving the gov't a huge amount of observeability and direct influence that they don't currently have. If you believe that we'll get legislation that enforces that municipal broadband must be a content-neutral dumb pipe and not every legislature trying to stick their hands in it for all sorts of random initiatives then I have 7 perpendicular red lines I want to show you.
- tyingq 6y ago"set by the US government" It's usually a city government, right? People generally seem to have more concerns with Federal, State, or County level governments. Not to say it isn't a concern, but cities seem less likely to engage in that sort of thing.
- pessimizer 6y agoAs far as I know, municipal broadband, not being federally run, isn't any more subject to federal inspection than any other broadband. I agree that mentioning the "government" vaguely in a poll out it would get the result someone anti-municipal broadband wanted.