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San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues

posted by mrpg on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-carrier dept.

takyon writes:

San Francisco: Building Community Broadband to Protect Net Neutrality and Online Privacy

Like many cities around the country, San Francisco is considering an investment in community broadband infrastructure: high-speed fiber that would make Internet access cheaper and better for city residents. Community broadband can help alleviate a number of issues with Internet access that we see all over America today. Many Americans have no choice of provider for high-speed Internet, Congress eliminated user privacy protections in 2017, and the FCC decided to roll back net neutrality protections in December.

This week, San Francisco published the recommendations of a group of experts, including EFF's Kit Walsh, regarding how to protect the privacy and speech of those using community broadband.

This week, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Municipal Fiber released its third report, which tackles competition, security, privacy, net neutrality, and more. It recommends San Francisco's community broadband require net neutrality and privacy protections. Any ISP looking to use the city's infrastructure would have to adhere to certain standards. The model of community broadband that EFF favors is sometimes called "dark fiber" or "open access." In this model, the government invests in fiber infrastructure, then opens it up for private companies to compete as your ISP. This means the big incumbent ISPs can no longer block new competitors from offering you Internet service. San Francisco is pursuing the "open access" option, and is quite far along in its process.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:07PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:07PM (#643122) Homepage

    I don't hate San Francisco, just the people in it. As a libertarian, I have no problems with the 'Mo's having naked parades down the streets and jacking up in broad daylight. What I do have a problem with is the amount of control over tech and culture the area holds, and worst of all, they're every bit as intolerant, oppressive, hypocritical, and preachy as the worst Baptist windbag televangelists.

    Liberals stopped being "the good guys" at least a decade ago. There is plenty of tech work throughout California, and skilled people who are able to move choose to live in San Francisco because they choose to live in a self-reinforcing circle-jerk and lack the self-control to contain their sex-lives indoors. Even the most ardent liberals should be horrified at the amount of censorship going on at Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others.

    The only hope now is for viable alternatives to the above services to emerge.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:42PM (#643144)

    Yeaaah, nothing like generalizations and stupidity coming out of EF to really indict a story. Get a grip you crazy triggered fuck, you really want to talk about self-reinforcing circle-jerk with a lack of self-control? The hypocrisy is amazing.