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El Reg reports
Voters in Colorado have abolished laws that had prohibited local governments from offering their own broadband internet services.
Local ballots in 17 counties all resulted in voters electing to allow their local governments to offer broadband service in competition with private cable companies. The vote overturns a 2005 law that prevented any government agency from competing in the broadband space.
[...] According to The Denver Post , the 17 counties have differing reasons for overturning the rule. Some areas want to build their own broadband infrastructure, while others simply want to offer Wi-Fi service in public buildings or improve service for farming communities.
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Colorado Voters Abolish Ban on Government-Owned Broadband
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(Score: 4, Funny) by srobert on Friday November 06 2015, @04:24PM
"...I'm sure our libertarian folks would be happy to remind us, the government is at least as capable of spying on you as any private company is..."
I'm not one of them, but I think their position usually is that government is not as capable of doing anything as well as the private sector.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday November 06 2015, @05:06PM
There's one exception to that rule, and that's oppression-related, which spying on Internet traffic definitely qualifies as.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:08AM
That's more of a neoliberal idea. Libertarians are quite capable of recognizing areas where the state can do a better job than the private sector. If municipal broadband is not paid for out of rates or taxes they'll be quite happy to use it.