calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Re: Good bye to... This doesn't spell "good bye munis"--it only means that munis that want to also provide video offerings have to get the state franchise. Most munis focus on straight Internet access, so you can get video from whomever you want.
As for the "public access support", "educational i-nets", and "free educational and governmental Internet access", I say: GOOD RIDDANCE!
All I've seen from those types of programs funded by local franchise fees is a mess of programming which is either propaganda saying how great local politicians are, or a slop of programming fawning over various "non-profit" and "public interest" organizations that then, in turn, endorse, support, and work for those politicians who control the committees that run these channels. In other words, pure incest committed with public money.
To the extent that there are any "public access" channels that broadcast anything more worthwhile than the basement cr@p so wonderfully satirized on "Wayne's World", I say let them justify their existence as any public tax eating program should, and don't hide their expenses in an indirect slush fund of broadcasting asserts controlled at the top by local political honchos.
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
