[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Mark Turner]

Exactly, Matt. And as AT&T's recent move demonstrates, the telecoms are 
making the Internet less free, not only as in beer but as in speech.

While I don't think every city is ready to jump into the broadband 
business, I don't like that choice being made for them at the state 
level (or should I say, at the telecom lobbyist level, as TWC wrote the 
bill).

Cheers,
Mark

On 03/14/2011 01:43 PM, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> My problem with this bill has nothing to do with Google's fiber plans or
> anything like that.  I read it as a blatant attempt to ensure that viable
> competition to the existing ISPs does not have a solid chance to get off
> the ground.