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The conservative small government movement has gained momentum based on the principle that decisions are best made at a local level, because people know what they want better than the federal government does. So why is a contingent of small government-minded congressional representatives trying to dick over local governments when it comes to high-speed internet access?
I live in Chattanooga. I have their gigabit internet. It is great, but it could be better officially let us run servers, officially let us run open wifi ala openwireless.org (I do it anyway, but if they come knocking I'll have to turn it off), even better would be if they let other ISPs run on top of their fiber plant and compete with each other. Still, it is at least as good as google fiber for the same price or less (except for no $300 flat-fee low-bandwidth option).
[Editor's Note] For the non-Americans in our readership, this appears to be nothing more than the usual Rep/Dem disagreement depending on which 'big business' funded the most to the appropriate campaign coffers. I would have to agree that the pricing seems expensive but, as we know, that is caused more by the regional monopolies than the actual cost of provision.
(Score: 2) by MrGuy on Thursday July 24 2014, @07:01PM
It's the federal government that says things like I can't kill people.
No, it is not. Murder is virtually always a state level crime. There are very few circumstances under which murder (or most other acts that tend to be prosecuted in criminal courts, like robbery, rape, assault, etc) wind up as federal crimes. Almost all criminal law is state level.
Your argument would be more powerful if you understood the issues at hand before pontificating about them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @09:05PM
Murder is virtually always a state level crime
When committed on federal land (e.g. a military reservation), it gets federal treatment.
President Kennedy's murder *should* have been handled by local authorities (who could have called in all the help they needed).
Instead, the locals deferred to the Feds, who then whisked off the body to another region, chose unqualified propaganda-friendly personal to "investigate", contaminated the evidence, and published a cover story.
-- gewg_