There’s a hearing tomorrow on the rewrite of the Communications Act proposed by House Commerce Commitee Chair Barton and Ranking member Dingell. Some friend of mine would like you to take action to let your elected representative know that you care about the provision in the bill that supports muni broadband.
More details here.
Stay tuned . . .
Dear Dems. We killed SOPA/PIPA in part by running out the clock in the House before December recess. Delay works.
Other things you can do: Deny unanimous consent on anything (that includes making Rs read the full text of bills before markup).
In rural south Georgia, an electric co-op is teaming up with @Windstream to expand fiber Internet access throughout the electric co-op’s service territory. https://muninetworks.org/content/georgia-co-op-teams-windstream-expand-internet-access
Anyone have more details about this old TV that knocked out broadband in a Welsh village?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180
@haroldfeld of @publicknowledge has a different, but complementary suggestion - the creation of a Digital Platform regulator. This regulator would act as the expert agent that could balance competition with privacy/security concerns. #DataToGoFTC
https://www.publicknowledge.org/documents/the-case-for-the-digital-platform-act/
Emerging #Section230 reg track (H/T @mmasnick)
Online Content Policy Modernization Act
Bill text: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/S4632.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1R_u6DUfbcmRCe-7izU93LGbtT497oLU-WwmJX_3cPdU4t67BhfW-NXCI
My 230 redline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pfFAMR7VUPStg0ZVW8jqdryzRiSRKZ7cNbT6Lyqo6WI/edit?usp=sharing
