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Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids
millermp writes "It looks like Verizon has succeeded in banning municipal WiFi networks in Pennsylvania. Since Verizon is looking to broadband service to fuel its growth, it calls municipal WiFi 'unfair competition.' This bill is following similar legislation earlier this year in Utah, Louisiana, and Florida." The bill has yet to be signed by Pennsylvania's governor, and as the story says, does not ban municipal wireless per se, but would place great restrictions on how it could be funded.
one single person (because that's what corporations are under the law) can have so much power because they have money.
I am assuming you're a liberal, because you seem to be anti-corporation, and that is generally from that side of the spectrum. Excuse me if I'm wrong, however, assuming this, I will make my point:
The problem is not that the corporations have this much influence on politics, it is that the government (the Congress) has been abusing their power to write laws that abridge our freedoms.
The reason I commented about your assumed liberalism is that liberals tend to want to give the government more and more money via taxes. A rich government is a powerful government.
If the government stuck to the constitution and just worried about enforcing the rights laid out in the constitution, protecting the country from military attack, and locking up violent criminals, we'd not be having a conversation about how much influence corporations have on the process. They'd have the same influence as me and you because THE CONGRESS WOULD NOT BE CREATING ALL THESE FUCKING LAWS.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
It's propoganda by corporate 'criminal 'robber barrons. I kept track of that project. Too bad you have some uneducated stupid voters in your community. It's their loss.