Netroots activism blocks effort to ban municipal Internet services: News: North Carolina: Independent Weekly: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill
May 13, 2009
North Carolina - Dogged grassroots activism last week shelved a bill before the legislature that would have prohibited local governments from providing broadband Internet and other telecommunications services to their citizens.
Using blogs, Twitter and other social media tools, a network of interested geeks beat back the anti-muni broadband bill into study committees in both the state House and Senate this week. Doing so required fighting off heavy lobbying, robocalls and push-polling by the cable TV industry and conservative anti-tax groups...
North Carolina - Dogged grassroots activism last week shelved a bill before the legislature that would have prohibited local governments from providing broadband Internet and other telecommunications services to their citizens.
Using blogs, Twitter and other social media tools, a network of interested geeks beat back the anti-muni broadband bill into study committees in both the state House and Senate this week. Doing so required fighting off heavy lobbying, robocalls and push-polling by the cable TV industry and conservative anti-tax groups...
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