I live in Sebastopol. Weird huh, that I am a hippie on a laptop, using wi-fi... and pursuing a degree in Computer Science.
Anyways. First, no, Sonic could not sue the city. There is no contract, Sonic net was going to be providing the service free of charge to the city, if I remember correctly from the city council meeting I went to (The first one where they voted yes, unanimously). All the doubts seemed to be reasonably shut out at that meeting, I don't know why the subject was brought up again. In fact, it was suggested that Sonic providing coverage would actually reduce the necessary number of Wi-Fi AP's.
Actually, no. The CIPA of 2000 forced schools (and libraries, which later got out of it) to apply some sort of filtering against "bad internet;" it was mainly intended to block pornographic material. At my high school, the power to block a site at a whim seems to be too much for the administration; everything from myspace.com to images.google.com to deviantart.com have been blocked (luckily for me, I can always use a proxy in Firefox (browser of gods) but theoretically, I shouldn't be doing so). Web censorship can be a good thing, but the blatant misuse of it is quite damaging.
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I live in Sebastopol. Weird huh, that I am a hippie on a laptop, using wi-fi... and pursuing a degree in Computer Science. Anyways. First, no, Sonic could not sue the city. There is no contract, Sonic net was going to be providing the service free of charge to the city, if I remember correctly from the city council meeting I went to (The first one where they voted yes, unanimously). All the doubts seemed to be reasonably shut out at that meeting, I don't know why the subject was brought up again. In fact, it was suggested that Sonic providing coverage would actually reduce the necessary number of Wi-Fi AP's.
Actually, no. The CIPA of 2000 forced schools (and libraries, which later got out of it) to apply some sort of filtering against "bad internet;" it was mainly intended to block pornographic material. At my high school, the power to block a site at a whim seems to be too much for the administration; everything from myspace.com to images.google.com to deviantart.com have been blocked (luckily for me, I can always use a proxy in Firefox (browser of gods) but theoretically, I shouldn't be doing so). Web censorship can be a good thing, but the blatant misuse of it is quite damaging.