FCC overrules B.S. bureaucratic Red Tape on expanding local municipal broadband.

[dawp]

I'm all in favor of creating as much competition as possible with ISPs. There isn't nearly enough and the ISPs know it.

Google Fiber COME TO GRAND RAPIDS!!!!!

I'm about to move to Charlotte, NC from just outside Kansas City, and no I can't get google fiber where I'm at. maybe in Charlotte I Will tho it's still too early to tell where it's going to be offered.

 

[blankslate]

Uhh and he's delusional in his thinking of what the word ban means. A ban is a limit.

ISPs encouraged policy makers they bought in certain states to wrapp up the process of expanding municipal broadband where it exists with so much red tape that one sie did refer to it as a ban...

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/26/fcc-votes-3-2-to-override-state-bans-of-city-broadband/

now the OP article does say this

Each offers broadband service to residents and received requests for service from people in nearby towns, but they alleged that state laws made it difficult or impossible for them to expand.

however, since you seem butthurt about it and I feel rather magnanimous for some reason the thread title has been changed... that better?





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[inachu]

There was a town who built their network out of their own money. It was some guy who worked at an ISP who offered his wifi then network to many. There is a youtube video of it someplace. IT just grew and grew and some local ISP's said that was illegal. Which is total BS.

 

[Genx87]

Never liked these laws on the state level. I wont shed a tear if these go away.

But I have to ask. Is this legal for a non-elected federal agency to override state law like this?

 

[HumblePie]

ISPs encouraged policy makers they bought in certain states to wrapp up the process of expanding municipal broadband where it exists with so much red tape that one sie did refer to it as a ban...

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/26/fcc-votes-3-2-to-override-state-bans-of-city-broadband/

now the OP article does say this



however, since you seem butthurt about it and I feel rather magnanimous for some reason the thread title has been changed... that better?





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i don't think you read what I typed in reply to Atreus correctly either.

 

[blankslate]

i don't think you read what I typed in reply to Atreus correctly either.

Perhaps not, but the new thread title seems much improved imo.


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[PokerGuy]

Never liked these laws on the state level. I wont shed a tear if these go away.

But I have to ask. Is this legal for a non-elected federal agency to override state law like this?

That's exactly my thoughts. The laws to limit competition and limit communities creating their own providers are BS and should not exist. I'm glad if they get tossed. However, my concern is with a federal agency possibly overreaching and essentially creating law outside of the legislative process.

This is a case where I agree with the FCC in their aim and the desired goal, but I'm not sure I like the approach to get there (based on a very broad interpretation of fcc powers)

 

[Sonikku]

So fair and balanced, it hurts.

 

[Kadarin]

So fair and balanced, it hurts.

Par for the course, for Faux News..

 

[Phokus]

So fair and balanced, it hurts.

Fox News: WILL OBAMA REPLACE ALL WEB PAGES WITH GOATSECX?

 

[PokerGuy]

So fair and balanced, it hurts.

I don't see anything wrong with their coverage of it. I happen to agree with net neutrality, but there's nothing incorrect about the fox page. obummer strongly backed the initiative, and two of the five commissioners were against it. The general public hasn't even seen the 200+ pages of regulations yet, and there's no guarantee the FCC won't expand their involvement much beyond what we've been led to believe. I'm all for net neutrality, but there are always multiple angles to the story.

 

[michal1980]

so liberals once again prove they are for big government.

 

[michal1980]

So fair and balanced, it hurts.

Par for the course, for Faux News..

So they should just tow the Obama line? Are you really advocating state run media?


The LMSM is already one strep away from every headline being "Obama does X, its GOOD"

replace X, with anything.

 

[nickqt]

So they should just tow the Obama line? Are you really advocating state run media?


The LMSM is already one strep away from every headline being "Obama does X, its GOOD"

replace X, with anything.

Yes, this has to be true, because your obummer hatred isn't clear to see by everyone who has a tentative grasp on the English language.

Keep it up! Fight the good fight!

 

[berzerker60]

Never liked these laws on the state level. I wont shed a tear if these go away.

But I have to ask. Is this legal for a non-elected federal agency to override state law like this?

Basically, the United States collectively owns the air waves that telecoms use. There's a limit to how much bandwidth exists, so they auction sections off to telecoms, on certain conditions that the telecoms address the public interest (for example, broadcast certain things in an emergency). Basically it's a supremacy clause case of interstate commerce and public goods vs. the states, kind of like if a state tried to allow oil drilling in a national park.

so liberals once again prove they are for big government.

Yes, scary Big government telling Medium government to stop interfering with Small government. How horrific.