#municipalbroadband — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #municipalbroadband, aggregated by home.social.
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Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network
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@rickscully @bhawthorne @rsf92 @pluralistic I wish #PortlandOregon could figure out how to own it's own fiber network. We are *stuck with terrible #Monopolies that pull over $350M out of the community every year. #PersonalTelcoProject pushed for #MunicipalBroadband studies about 6 years ago but the #Metro council and city have sat on their hands since then.
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Municipal broadband advocates fight off attacks from “dark money” groups - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
Cities and town... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025230 #communitybroadband #municipalbroadband #darkmoneygroups #publicbroadband #features #policy
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Friday's are usually considered the "best" (no one paying attention) days to drop bad news
This Friday though -- a bit of good news ...
That anti muni broadband budget amendment that was floated in NY didn't survive
#Internet #InternetForAll #MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitalequity
https://communitynets.org/content/anti-muni-broadband-budget-amendment-gets-nixed-new-york
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Friday's are usually considered the "best" (no one paying attention) days to drop bad news
This Friday though -- a bit of good news ...
That anti muni broadband budget amendment that was floated in NY didn't survive
#Internet #InternetForAll #MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitalequity
https://communitynets.org/content/anti-muni-broadband-budget-amendment-gets-nixed-new-york
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Friday's are usually considered the "best" (no one paying attention) days to drop bad news
This Friday though -- a bit of good news ...
That anti muni broadband budget amendment that was floated in NY didn't survive
#Internet #InternetForAll #MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitalequity
https://communitynets.org/content/anti-muni-broadband-budget-amendment-gets-nixed-new-york
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Friday's are usually considered the "best" (no one paying attention) days to drop bad news
This Friday though -- a bit of good news ...
That anti muni broadband budget amendment that was floated in NY didn't survive
#Internet #InternetForAll #MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitalequity
https://communitynets.org/content/anti-muni-broadband-budget-amendment-gets-nixed-new-york
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All it takes is a handful of state lawmakers to do the bidding of monopoly broadband providers
And look what we have here in the New York State Assembly proposed budget: a buried provision that seeks to gut the state's muni broadband grant program SMH
They think they're slick. Click link below for my story on the shenanigans in Albany
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With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) on its last legs, the American Prospect published my piece today on how some communities are able to provide affordable access to high speed #internet even w/o ACP
Guess what these communities have in common?
#MunicipalBroadband #InternetForAll #Internet #access #digitalequity
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-03-18-municipal-broadband-solution/
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CW: Long thread/6
#10yrsago Podcasting #PatentTrolls seek to intimidate #EFF supporters, EFF fights back https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/eff-fights-patent-troll-demand-eff-podcast-donor-information
#10yrsago #TSA #whistleblower describes life in the #pornoscanner room https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-confession-102912/
#10yrsago Kansas #CableLobbyist writes bill outlawing #GoogleFiber and #MunicipalBroadband, gets it introduced in Kansas legislature https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/who-wants-competition-big-cable-tries-outlawing-municipal-broadband-in-kansas/
#10yrsago Canadian spies illegally tracked travellers using free airport wifi https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documents-1.2517881
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CW: Long thread/7
#5yrsago Consumer Reports finds that #DLink’s home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk-consumer-reports-finds-a8814384448/
#5yrsago Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered #Predpol’s predictive policing services? https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/30/is-this-the-full-list-of-us-cities-that-have-bought-or-considered-predpols-predictive-policing-services/
#5yrsago Trump #FCC official publicly lying about censorship on #MunicipalBroadband https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj49j8/fcc-falsely-claims-community-broadband-an-ominous-threat-to-the-first-amendment
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LA County is accelerating its plan to deliver affordable broadband access to the city’s unserved and underserved, with an eye toward building one of the biggest municipal broadband networks in the nation.
Yet another example of community broadband advocates taking the bull by the horns and breaking the monopoly grip of Big Telecom
Good story here that my colleague @KarlBode wrote for us
#MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitaldivide #digitalequity #communitybroadband
https://muninetworks.org/content/la-county-selects-pilot-communities-major-broadband-expansion