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Does 'prohibitively difficult' mean that towns aren't allowed to put in networks? or simply that it's hard to get funding from some higher level of government?
by kingsuper20 5y ago
Does 'prohibitively difficult' mean that towns aren't allowed to put in networks? or simply that it's hard to get funding from some higher level of government?
It's hard to imagine some state law that prohibits a town (or neighborhood for that matter) from building out some kind of internet access.
- smelendez 5y agoThose laws absolutely exist. Usually passed by state legislatures who see it as government overreach, encouraged by the big ISPs.
- kingsuper20 5y agoHuh. That's ridiculous. If a city can force everyone to pitch in for a library (cough homeless center), I'd think that running some wires and hooking up some gear would be a no-brainer.
- xbar 5y agoYeah! And let's ban water, too! And sewers!
- nobody9999 5y ago>It's hard to imagine some state law that prohibits a town (or neighborhood for that matter) from building out some kind of internet access. That seems more like a failure of imagination, since ALEC[0] has been writing bills for state legislators to do just that for many years. cf. https://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12385/how-alec-helps-big-telecom-change-state-laws-corporate-gain https://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12385/how-alec-helps-bi... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...