As if you needed another reason to detest the dictatorship of the two-party state. From
Ars Technica:
It's no secret that private Internet service providers hate
when cities and towns decide to enter the telecommunications business
themselves. But with private ISPs facing little competition and offering
slow speeds for high prices, municipalities occasionally get fed up and
decide to build their own broadband networks.
To prevent this assault on their lucrative revenue streams, ISPs have
teamed up with friends in state legislatures to pass laws that make it
more difficult or impossible for cities and towns to offer broadband
service.
Attorney James Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group has been fighting attempts
to restrict municipal broadband projects for years. He's catalogued
restrictions placed upon public Internet service in 20 states, and that
number could be much higher already if not for the efforts of consumer
advocates.
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