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Listen, since we’re figuring out now how to build a better world from whatever wreckage is to come, I might as well share a reminder of how much power we have, including over technology, including over ISP’s.
The earlier thread here about Comcast’s “Essentials” program reminded me: That program, thoroughly inadequate to meet the goals of tech equity, exists because our city government accepted it in exchange for what are essentially land rights.
In order to provide cable, Comcast and other companies have to lay fiber. In order to lay fiber, they have to open up the ground. In the public right of way.
ok, who else is on @MassBudget's Equitable Education through the Crisis presentation? #MAedu
@MassBudget is there a hashtag?
@MassBudget .@MarieFrances_MA just referred to the state budget as a "policy tool"
Yes, indeed! #MAedu
Yes, indeed! #MAedu
The @AP picked up @ScottOConnellTG's coverage of our meeting on municipal broadband! #Worcester #worcpoli #WorcSchools #municipalbroadband
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There's data on this! internetinnovation.org/special-report…
