Mutant Broadband Bills Are Infecting Our Communities

February 22, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy

Should communities have a right to decide how residents get online? It sounds like a simple question. It isn’t.

The notion of self-determination is fundamental to our self identify, our politics and the way we construct our communities. And while we all have different interpretations of what “the right to self-determination” means, most of us can agree that it’s a bad thing when governments try to take it away.

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