by
ankh » Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:00 am
A news tidbit, perhaps relevant:
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| San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues |
| from the yes-carrier dept. |
| posted by mrpg on Saturday February 24, @18:23 (Digital Liberty) |
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https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/24/047258 |
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[0]takyon writes:
[1]San Francisco: Building Community Broadband to Protect Net Neutrality
and Online Privacy
Like many cities around the country, San Francisco is considering an
investment in community broadband infrastructure: high-speed fiber
that would make Internet access cheaper and better for city
residents. Community broadband [2]can help alleviate a number of
issues with Internet access that we see all over America today. Many
Americans have no choice of provider for [3]high-speed Internet,
[4]Congress eliminated user privacy protections in 2017, and the
[5]FCC decided to roll back net neutrality protections in December.
This week, San Francisco published the recommendations of a group of
experts, including EFF's Kit Walsh, regarding how to protect the
privacy and speech of those using community broadband.
This week, [6]the Blue Ribbon Panel on Municipal Fiber released its
[7]third report, which tackles competition, security, privacy, net
neutrality, and more. It recommends San Francisco's community
broadband require net neutrality and privacy protections. Any ISP
looking to use the city's infrastructure would have to adhere to
certain standards. The model of community broadband that EFF favors
is sometimes called "dark fiber" or "open access." In this model, the
government invests in fiber infrastructure, then opens it up for
private companies to compete as your ISP. This means the big
incumbent ISPs can no longer block new competitors from offering you
Internet service. San Francisco is pursuing the "open access" option,
and is quite far along in its process.
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Links:
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https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/s ... and-online
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/c ... al-control
3.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attac ... 16-6A1.pdf
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/t ... u-can-help
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https://sfmunifiber.org/
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https://sfmunifiber.files.wordpress.com ... report.pdf
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https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=vi ... ubid=25026