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February 8, 2018 12:42 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3M74GGqCA9s/it-wasnt-for-you-darned-kids.html
Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDPOvFdUcE
Isaac Protiva wanted to know who was behind the "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign that was pouring a fortune into scuttling the plan to build a fast, efficient, low-cost city network in his hometown of West Plains, Missouri; after a lot of digging, he discovered that (naturally), the "collection of fiscally conservative Missourians" who were nominally behind the site was actually the local cable-monopoly, Fidelity Communications, who came clean (but never apologized). (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3M74GGqCA9s/it-wasnt-for-you-darned-kids.html
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