Free Press : Community Internet

Free Press : Community Internet: "Pennsylvania is one of 14 states with laws on the books restricting municipal broadband. In the face of burgeoning public opposition, the telecom and cable companies are moving quickly to write their monopolies into law. Corporate front groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have even created model anti-municipal legislation for sympathetic state legislators to copy."

Even when the people are aware, there's little we can do about corporate control of governance. Once again we see that small government means little social help, little representation of the people, huge governmental interest in our private lives, and huge governmental leverage for corporations.