[tb_technical]

Municipal broadband is such a great idea - but it's as hard, if not harder, to convince a city council to pursue this over adding a simple bicycle lane to a small street downtown.

[SoftTalker]

Cities know how to build roads. They don't know shit about operating high speed broadband. My taxes keep going up because the city keeps taking on more and more responsibilities that (a) they don't know how to provide and (b) isn't really their responsibility to provide.

[HWR_14]

Many states forbid municipalities from offering broadband without approval from the legislature.

[Figs]

If I've learned anything from the last decade of politics, the proper solution to that nonsense is to give them the middle finger and do it anyway.