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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the mama-don't-allow-no-competition-'round-here dept.

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.

Related:
Muni ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling (Ars Technica)

Previous: Appeals Court Rules the FCC Cannot Override State Laws Banning Municipal ISPs


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:53PM (#404531)

    Remember during the civil war. The confederates were the ones backing the constitution. The union tried to take power that was not there. Only after winning did the rewrite start.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:30PM (#404554)

    They stated that the states rights as enshrined in the AoC had not been overturned by the signing of the Constitution.

    Much like the moonshiners before them, they discovered that the law is whatever those with guns tell you it is, and the papers are only used to provide justification when it fits the narrative. Not unlike 'all men are created equal', except if you add 'wo' to them, or they are descended from niggers or injuns.

    Also as has been pointed out before, the Union allowed slavery in 'conforming' states to continue until all the previous slaveowners had died out.