{ "id": "9e2c746d08b4097eeab972447833e28b634819463bae05a6929fcb226817c4d2", "pubkey": "17538dc2a62769d09443f18c37cbe358fab5bbf981173542aa7c5ff171ed77c4", "created_at": 1731000379, "kind": 9802, "tags": [ [ "r", "https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/16-u-s-states-still-ban-community-owned-broadband-networks-because-att-and-comcast-told-them-to/", "source" ], [ "comment", "ISP regulatory gulag" ] ], "content": "Currently sixteen states have laws — usually ghost written by regional telecom monopolies — restrict or outright ban community broadband. Some of these laws are outright bans on community broadband, basically letting Comcast or AT\u0026T veto your local infrastructure voting rights. Others erect elaborate, cumbersome restrictions on the financing and expansion of such networks and pretend that’s not a ban.", "sig": "2b24904c9b2e1ddbc5db93115a989fdba3ef520aa9c07b3deea7b37d52e4efb890d0d32bd2bfe5ef01aff4ca329fee4494c0664fc0f0d5793add066c627e7bd8" }