Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents

Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by nitwit005 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:17PM (#27682485)

Despite all the discussion here, the real answer seems to be that there is no such argument. As the article notes, they won't even admit they're in favor of it:

> The proposed law was reportedly "inserted without prior public discussion," and no state senator publicly sponsored the amendment.

It's purely a favor to industry slipped in by some senator.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by justin66 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:18AM (#27684804)

As it's a conservative measure [0] and as we're talking about the Ohio Senate here, it's entirely possible it was inserted into legislation by someone who might or might not know how to read and written entirely by ALEC. [1]

[0] nominally conservative. Ohio conservatives give a lot of lip service to "home rule" authority for municipalities. Broadband is one of several areas including LGBT measures and civil rights, oil and gas drilling, education policy, voting, and basically anything you could name where they violate their stated principles of home rule without any apparent irony when the mood strikes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

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