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TechDirt reports
Wilson, North Carolina's Greenlight [publicly-owned ISP], has had to disconnect one neighboring town or face violating state law. With state leaders tone deaf to the problem of letting incumbent ISPs write such laws, and the FCC flummoxed [by a federal court] in its attempt to help, about 200 home Internet customers in [the town of] Pinetops will thus lose access to gigabit broadband service as of October 28
[...] Greenlight's fiber network provides speeds of 40Mbps to 1Gbps at prices ranging from $40 to $100 a month, service that's unheard of from any of the regional incumbent providers (AT&T, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable) that lobbied for the protectionist law. Previously, the community of Pinetops only had access to sluggish DSL Service from CenturyLink.
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Muni ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling (Ars Technica)
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:51PM
If everyone shorted their properties together, and then recorded those sales, government would have no choice but to alter property taxes.
It was enormously successful in Las Vegas (claims for adjustment). Property prices tanked by over 50%, and instead of paying the thousands of dollars in taxes on some properties, the owners simply sued the city. Properties were re-appraised, and indeed, the city had no choice but to lower the property taxes.
If property taxes are in any way associated with the last selling price, that is quite easily to manipulate.
They should have a multi-pronged approach including demanding re-appraisals, funding progressive candidates, and basically making life pure fucking hell for the government officials there.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:20PM
That's all nice and well, but the state-level politicians who are in the pockets of Comcast aren't going to give a shit. They have nothing to do with local property taxes, and the state budget has nothing to do with local property taxes.