According to my friends at Free Press, the forces of municipal broadband won a major victory in Florida. Following a nasty legislative fight in the heart of Bell South territory, the Republican dominated legislature saw fit to impose only one condition on municipal broadband — annual reports.
Score since PA: Public interest- 3, Incumbents-0, Tie-1 (WV, where positive legislation was neutralized)
Stay tuned . . . .
again: America's mediocre broadband was a policy choice. A policy choice that involved prioritizing the interests of regional monopolies for twenty straight years, resulting a dearth of competition, high prices, spotty coverage, slow speeds, and comically bad customer service.
"We know from recent auctions that the FCC assumption on the number of homes in a Census block is often wrong. It’s hard to count homes without broadband if we don’t know how to count homes in general."
https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2021/05/11/those-troublesome-fcc-maps/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
@MMartTPF @JRosenworcelFCC @NAACP @gigibsohn @haroldfeld Word of mouth, trusted peers and reaching people where they are, all valuable and effective.
For communicating #EmergencyBroadbandBenefit all the above — especially via non-digital means.
Are broadband providers putting flyers in their bills and statements? If no, why not?
Read this thread to understand the many reasons why Content ID is completely broken, and wby it's essier to scam others than to protect your own videos.
Good creators are quitting because of Content ID. Please raise and address this @rkyncl @SusanWojcicki https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1391067996903280643
Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcyOxtkafMs
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Well that is satisfying.
This issue recently got front page treatment on dailykos.com. As long as we keep the pressure up, it will be increasingly harder for the telcos to write sweetheart legislation in the back rooms. . .
Thanks as ever for the good work.
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Harold, which are the three victories you are referring to? I’ll quote them on SaveMuniWireless.org for Texas.
Indiana, Illinois and Florida?
Indiana- Bill killed in subcommittee
Illinois- Bill withdrawn.
Florida- Compromise bill passed.