Porn | Municipal Broadband's Best Hope In NC? Porn

Like a lot of legislative efforts at various levels of government, House bill 129 in North Carolina, which would impose new regulations and limitations on the ability of municipalities to build their own broadband networks, has gotten a bit bogged down by potential amendments. The most notable one, pointed out by DSL Reports, was an amendment that would ban porn from community-owned cable TV systems.

DSL Reports has more:

"The porn debate isn't expected to derail the discussion in North Carolina for long, so residents of North Carolina who'd like to retain full rights when it comes to having a say in your own town's broadband infrastructure still have time to contact their representatives."

Municipal broadband backers can, for now, ironically, thank pornography for keeping their hopes for community-run networks afloat. It made the most controversial current debate over the future of municipal broadband a little more controversial. Still, it would be in their best interests to get legislators to focus on the matter at hand: Keeping big broadband service providers from blocking municipal efforts to build networks in markets in which they themselves have shown little or no interest. Meanwhile, is the Federal Communications Commission going to weigh in on the municipal broadband debate?

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