Comment Re:Why shouldn't they? (Score 2) 291
This thought has also crossed my mind.
I live in a city that has both a municipal fiber network that nobody is exploiting commercially for internet access (for a variety of reasons... mostly the politics of business in a small city...) and a very vocal group of internet censorship advocates (As reported in-depth on Slashdot).
"I don't want my tax dollars paying for a pervert's access to internet smut!" has already been heard here. Should the local Board of Public Works reverse their current stance and consider offering some kind of municipal internet service, I have no doubt that there would be some significant fallout. I can't help but think that this has come up in policy meetings and is a part of why the city doesn't in fact go into the ISP business. :\
I live in a city that has both a municipal fiber network that nobody is exploiting commercially for internet access (for a variety of reasons... mostly the politics of business in a small city...) and a very vocal group of internet censorship advocates (As reported in-depth on Slashdot).
"I don't want my tax dollars paying for a pervert's access to internet smut!" has already been heard here. Should the local Board of Public Works reverse their current stance and consider offering some kind of municipal internet service, I have no doubt that there would be some significant fallout. I can't help but think that this has come up in policy meetings and is a part of why the city doesn't in fact go into the ISP business.
