How Industry Worked to Outlaw Municipal Networks

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which receives financial support from a number of communications giants, has helped pass bills that hamper or outright ban municipal broadband networks in 19 states. "If you’re going to make way for Comcast to own this big a footprint, at least give American cities ... the opportunity to grow an alternative," Carr tells Moyers.

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