The FCC Can't Help Cities Trapped By Predatory Internet Deals With Big Telecom 93
Jason Koebler writes: At least 20 states have laws that make it illegal for communities to offer local government-owned high speed internet access. Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler threw consumers a bone by suggesting that the agency could make it easier for cities to skirt those laws. That's a great first step — but many cities have locked themselves into telecom company-caused messes the FCC probably can't fix. The FCC's power becomes much less certain once you drill into the other major reason—besides state laws—why cities can't offer broadband to their constituents: local, long-term agreements with internet service providers.
Re:A Question from a Stupid Foreigner. (Score:2, Funny)
This. Breasts on TV would be the end of American civilization itself.
You mock, but a child exposed to such things would be horribly scarred, psychologically. The economy would ultimately suffer as well from the burden of supporting them.
Re:A Question from a Stupid Foreigner. (Score:2, Funny)
I advocate that we blind children at birth:
- it would prevent any trauma caused by wardrobe malfunctions
- it would prevent kids from seeing their own penis/vagina (and immature women from seeing their own breasts)
- it would prevent kids from seeing any and all the horrors of this world
(and if it works, I suggest we deafen them too so they don't ear all the swear words and heathen rethorics)