{"id":29,"date":"2004-12-23T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-11-14T02:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:00:46","slug":"municipal-broadband-access-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Broadband Access in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/dude_wheres_my.shtml\">previously discussed<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/markjourn.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/wifi-public-utility-or-private.html\">Mark<\/a> for example, that internet connectivity is so important that it should be treated as a public utility, rather than just a matter for private interests. Apparently, the businesses disagree with me. (Why am I not surprised?)<\/p>\n<p>Besides recently losing an important battle in Philadelphia, where Verizon Communications made sure the state would not subsidize internet access, the legislation has now been converted to a fill-in-the-blanks DIY-kit, complete with dotted lines for the state name.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, dreamed up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alec.org\">American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)<\/a>, is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muniwireless.com\/reports\/docs\/antimunicipalbroadband.doc\">Municipal Telecommunications Private Industry Safeguards Act<\/a> (word file).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muniwireless.com\/archives\/000528.html\">Read more<\/a>, and be sure to check out the list of representatives on the Private Enterprise Board of ALEC, and you might get a hint to from where this is coming from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously discussed, with Mark for example, that internet connectivity is so important that it should be treated as a public utility, rather than just a matter for private interests. Apparently, the businesses disagree with me. (Why am I not surprised?) Besides recently losing an important battle in Philadelphia, where Verizon Communications made sure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-culture","category-technologies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}