FCC Member Copps In Favor of Municipal WiFi

Cryofan writes "Michael Copps, one of the five members of the FCC, spoke on the recent controversy over legislation to outlaw municipal WiFi: "I think we do a grave injustice in trying to hobble municipalities. That's an entrepreneurial approach, that's an innovative approach. Why don't we encourage that instead of having bills introduced--'Oh, you can't do this because it's interfering with somebody's idea of the functioning of the marketplace...a municipality is a democratically run institution. They can make their own decisions. They don't need the Bells. They don't need the Administration, and they don't need me telling them what kind of decision they should be making.'"

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!!!WOW

[Tufriast]

I don't watch TV , so I could care less about the broadcast flag, as I can build a PC to do that job. I also expect a variety of PVR broadcast flag bypassing machines to be available sometime soon. I do however care about the freedom of the web. I am glad someone upstairs isn't thinking with greed on their mind. It's about time they got some balls!