Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/34054-marco-rubio-pushes-to-block-low-cost-high-speed-broadband

In a rare senatorial act, full-time Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio joined with a handful of fellow legislators on Friday in an attempt to block local municipalities from undercutting big telecom companies by providing cheap, fast internet service.

Rubio, who is raising campaign cash from the telecom industry for his presidential campaign, fired off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to allow states to block municipal broadband services.

The letter was the latest salvo in a long-running effort by the major telecom companies to outlaw municipal broadband programs that have taken off in cities such as Lafayette, Louisiana, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, because they pose a threat to a business model that calls for slow, expensive internet access without competition.

In Chattanooga, for instance, city officials set up a service known as “The Gig,” a municipal broadband network that provides data transfers at one gigabit per second for less than $70 a month — a rate that is 50 times faster than the average speed American customers have available through private broadband networks.

AT&T, Cox Communications, Comcast, and other broadband providers, fearing competition, have used their influence in state government to make an end-run around local municipalities. Through surrogates like the American Legislative Exchange Council, the industry gets states to pass laws that ban municipal broadband.

[liberal N proud]

1. Anything to screw people

[SCVDem]

2. We're number one!

In fucking our own citizens every chance they can!

[Scuba]

3. Social networking and access to information is anathema to Republicans.

[sorefeet]

4. Thats right Marco

Keep The American people stupid. That's the only way you win elections. Ignorant people are your pay check.

[SmittynMo]

5. Damn this guy is stupid

Hey Marco, we want to move forward, not backwards. What an idiot.

Ooop, Nevermind. I forgot he represents the 1%.

P.S. He' still an idiot.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. He's getting big $$$$ from the telecoms for his campaign

Of course he'll do their bidding.

[Overseas]

7. K&R. Hope Republican voters hear about this.

[Skeeter Barnes]

8. Marco is a devoted follower of our national religion, Capitalism. He worships the United States

official God, the Almighty Dollar. Exploit the worker. Swindle the consumer. Bless the Markets and the Prophets that manipulate them. Give us this day our pile of cash, no matter how many people it kills or how slow it makes the internet. Amen.

[Gloria]

9. I realky hate this smug little f***

He is repulsive

[lark]

10. Hmm. funny I didn't see/hear anything about that in the local msm

So freaking tired of the old lie about "liberal media". Yeah, so the individual reporters show up as slightly liberal, but the owerners of the paper, the editors, control the content and it's all RW biased. .

If the public really knew all the heinous things the repugs do, they would have very few supporters. Only good thing is this can be heavily used against Rubio if he's the general election candidate.

[NCTraveler]

11. A lack of knowledge is paramount to the success of the GOP. Nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Rubio the do-nothing never show up 4 a vote Senator

is a perfect dupe for the MIC. The money coming in behind him will be limitless