laprice

Can you comment on the efforts by cable companies and incumbent telcos to prevent the development of municipal broadband initiatives.

For instance in 1997-1998 Eugene's public utility ( EWEB ) held hearings on a plan to provide ISP services in conjunction with the city of Eugene. The plan was quietly dropped after AT&T and ComCast indicated that they would sue the city to prevent such a thing.

How does your bill encourage and protect efforts in that direction that might be made in the future?

Does Google receive law enforcement requests for summary statistical information that might be relevant to crime-prevention?

If so, what kind of requests? And how do you respond?

Do you think the political repression we've seen since 9/11 is deliberately engineered?

If so by whom, and why?