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 . . . .
Broadband firms monitoring our web browsing. Cell phone providers selling location data to advertisers. This new @FTC report is an urgent call for strict rules & strong enforcement to protect against broadband companies’ spying. https://twitter.com/ftc/status/1451252947409686531
FTC staff report finds many Internet service providers collect troves of personal data, users have few options to restrict use: https://go.usa.gov/xMJBu
Check out our four-part series on building wireless networks! The collection features participants from this summer’s Tribal Wireless Bootcamp.
https://muninetworks.org/content/watch-four-part-educational-video-series-building-wireless-networks
Commissioner Slaughter echoing a lot of what Commissioner Khan has already said.
Rescinding the open internet order was bad for consumers, and encouraged a "race to the bottom."
However, the FTC can use its knowledge gained from the report to think about privacy more broadly.
Technically, the FCC would still have authority if broadband were Title II. The statutory CPNI requirements would still exist. Only the 2016 rules were rescinded.
Commissioner Phillips says that this report is an example of how the FTC can act in a bipartisan manner.
However, this is only happening because the FCC's privacy rules were rescinded by Congress. And instead of getting enforcement, we have a report. That's a step backwards.
She also shouts out the fact that the FCC has the clearest authority to regulate the ISPs behavior.
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Illinois- Bill withdrawn.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.