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WHY YOUR BROADBAND SUCKS
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:09:29 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Reply-To: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:49:20 -0800 To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] WHY YOUR BROADBAND SUCKS [Note: Lessig likes to put into practice what he preaches. For over a year now, he's been supporting SFLan <http://www.sflan.org>, a wireless community network in San Francisco, which covers the entire city. DLH] WHY YOUR BROADBAND SUCKS [Commentary] City leaders stepping in to provide cheap broadband when the market hasn't? What's next -- providing street lights when private interests don't? This sort of insanity is raging across the US today. Pushed by lobbyists, at least 14 states have passed legislation similar to Pennsylvania's that blocks municipal Internet networks. Lessig says he's always wondered what almost $1 billion spent on lobbying state lawmakers gets you. Now we're beginning to see. He concludes: City and state politicians should have the backbone to stand up to self-serving lobbyists. Citizens everywhere should punish telecom toadies who don't. Backwater broadÂband has been our fate long enough. Let the markets, both private and public, compete to provide the service that telecom and cable has not. [SOURCE: Wired, AUTHOR: Lawrence Lessig lawrence_lessig () wiredmag com (You saw him on West Wing, but didn't he look like the guy from Taxi?)] <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5> Archives at: <http://Wireless.Com/Dewayne-Net> [Note: Requires registration] Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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