LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network

An anonymous reader writes "On Saturday, Lafayette, Louisiana voters gave BellSouth and Cox the collective finger and approved a municipal FTTH network by a 62% to 38% margin. The Daily Advertiser has coverage of the vote and possible repercussions. The hotly-contested vote was prompted by a lawsuit by BellSouth and Cox Communications, who bitterly opposed the plan. BellSouth threatened to close a Cingular call center if the plan passed, and the companies employed push polling, including statements that a city-run cable system might ration TV programming and block religious channels."

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Re:Oh really?

[Wiseleo]

I have always maintained that religion is nothing more than a means of mass control of vast numbers of people. All the holy wars, from an agnostic and atheistic perspective (I know the difference, but in this case both qualify) is who has a better imaginary friend or a group of imaginary friends.

I never knew that religious programming is that prevalent on non-cable networks that I never watch, however.