corruption Despite the FCC, more than 750 predominantly conservative US communities have built their own publicly owned ISPs Cory Doctorow
web theory Net Neutrality is just for starters: municipal networks are the path to paradise Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
News 2020 Elections: Ransomware attacks on voter registration databases and systems feared by cybersecurity officials Xeni Jardin
usausausa Small town, independent and municipally owned ISPs offer America's best connectivity Cory Doctorow
web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal broadband Cory Doctorow
patents Patent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism Cory Doctorow
happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Small Massachusetts town decides to spend $1.4m building its own fiber, rather than paying Comcast $500K for shitty broadband Cory Doctorow
corruption New York City's municipal debt collectors have forged an unholy alliance with sleazy subprime lenders Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Everybody hates their cable company, unless the company is Google, or the city, or a tiny mom-and-pop Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Washington State lawmaker thinks the courts will uphold state Net Neutrality law because the FCC abdicated its duty Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Big Telco hates "regulation," but they love their billions in government handouts Cory Doctorow
