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How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband

Posted by Soulskill on from the can't-even-trust-the-huge-soulless-corporations-anymore dept.

Rick Zeman writes: The Center for Public Integrity has a comprehensive article showing how Big Telecom (aka, AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Time Warner) use lobbyists, paid-for politicians, and lawsuits (both actual and the threat thereof) in their efforts to kill municipal broadband. From the article: "The companies have also used traditional campaign tactics such as newspaper ads, push polls, direct mail and door-to-door canvassing to block municipal networks. And they've tried to undermine the appetite for municipal broadband by paying for research from think tanks and front groups to portray the networks as unreliable and costly."

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  1. progressive = slut kommi views: by noshellswill · · Score: -1, Troll

    More Gub'mnt handouts eh hoser?  Call it municiple, but it's the DOLE for parasites you really mean.  Better: If you can't pay then don't play. I don't want to pay for your media-play thru a Gub'mnt pimping service ... like another Obama.phone for Bantu baby-momaz and krak-dealers. 

  2. Re:um by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1, Troll

    "They are not journalists" - they won a Pulitzer..

    Obama won a Nobel.