North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband

An anonymous reader writes: In February, when the FCC rolled out its net neutrality rules, it also voted to override state laws that let Texas and North Carolina block ISPs created by local governments and public utilities. These laws frequently leave citizens facing a monopoly or duopoly with no recourse, so the FCC abolished them. Now, North Carolina has sued the FCC to get them back. State Attorney General Roy Cooper claims, "the FCC unlawfully inserted itself between the State and the State's political subdivisions." He adds that the new rule is "arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act; and is otherwise contrary to law."

Comments

Re:Why Would Anyone Want Gov't Broadband?

[Okian Warrior]

It would end up being like Amtrak.

So you're saying Amtrak is worse than Comcast. Yes?

In other words...

[cnaumann]

The state government is saying that the federal government has no right to interfere with the state's right to interfere with local government.

Re:Why?

[NotInHere]

In 100 years, there will be singularity. In 2084, when the singularity takes over the world, your area was scheduled for destruction by nuclear missile, because uploading its control virus onto your brain implant chips (mandatory by international treaties since the 2076 terror attack on google city (new name of mountain view since 2060), pushed by US president Bush junior junior) would have required too long.

Thank God

[Ol Olsoc]

The State of North Carolina has the guts to stand up for freedom!

Dialup forever! - Long distance charges may apply.

Re:Obsessed with keeping government out of busines

[amicusNYCL]

there's no reason why a local municipality shouldn't be able to collectively decide that they want to take a crack at creating something better.

No, you see, "local municipality" is just a codeword for "big government", so the problem is that you don't want big government doing things like running utilities, because fascism, and when you have big government (i.e. a council of a town with a population of 1,000 people) competing against the free market and small business (i.e., Comcast), then that's unfair because monopoly. Not Comcast's monopoly, the monopoly that big government would have (because it's the government, duh). Also, small businesses like Comcast could not compete with big government like the council of a town with a population of 1,000 people.

Hope that clears it up for you.