We are starting a new feature at Public Knowledge called “Five Minutes With Harold Feld,” wherein I will take insanely boring complicated wonkery and make it mildly less boring. This week, I explain the National Broadband Plan and the comments PK filed last night.
Stay tuned . . . .
I will say it again and again, I actually agree that the time for a whole new approach to Internet regulation is here and needed. That said, the Liberals are turning this opportunity into a disaster in every conceivable way. #CRTC #CDNpoli https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1383048582257840128
Why the Liberals Have Become the Most Anti-Internet Government in Canadian History https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/why-the-liberals-have-become-the-most-anti-internet-government-in-canadian-history/
@rscooter369 @mikeconlow Just shows that it may takes lots of years but the right policy of city ownership of vast conduit infrastructure really makes a difference on the competition front for non-rural markets. We've just never really agressively mandated and forced it long enough to bear fruit.
Broadband coops are an urban as well as rural solution, as striking Spectrum workers are proving in NYC.
https://gizmodo.com/revenge-spectrum-workers-on-strike-build-their-own-isp-1846678437
Tell the FTC you want #RightToRepair!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hMzJC7BTmrs
cc @EFF @doctorow
I noticed that your name is not included among the signers of PK’s comments on the NBP. Is there a story behind that?
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