GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Under the bills, some kinds of local telecom projects would be approved automatically if a city or town doesn’t rule within a deadline set by Congress.

  The tl;dr

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In other words, city governments are mad that they can no longer hold up approvals in order to get more fees coughbribes from these companies.

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    • AliasAKA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      More like, large corporations not at all invested in local communities are now empowered to completely run rough shod over local governance processes. They’re actually more likely to pay for folks to stall out slow approval processes so that they can take advantage of this law and start building, especially when the permit would have likely been denied because it didn’t consider easements, fire or flood risks, building and local regulatory standards, or any other manner of things. So this actually increases the likelihood of bribes, and ensuring that corporations actually pay less to your local government and more to personal pockets of those being bribed.

      A better version of these flawed tactics would’ve been that failure to meet timelines would open the project to public vote and also that every project would require a public option (eg government supplied bid on the infrastructure) to compete. That way if timeline expires, it’s not automatically awarded to people who have a vested interest in it expiring at the expense of a community. It could be awarded to a local municipal project instead.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or alternatively, companies can bribe a few local politicians to stall, then start building anyways when the deadline hits.

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• SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t see this mentioned anywhere, but what happens if thier auto approved permit requires running it through your house, or your farm field? Is it just auto immenent domained? Who, if anyone, compensates you?

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well as is the nature of these things just assume the home owner gets fucked side ways, gets nothing, and gets to cry.

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  • zd9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    lol

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• PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  GOP law exists, customers hate it, companies love it - there, wrote all headlines for GOP-written laws

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I own a company. I can promise it doesn’t help us.

    Big business loves it. That’s it.

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• zd9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Another perfect representation of small government, “don’t tread on me” governing. Totally not the slimiest hypocritical corporate-bootlicking behavior that Republicans are known for, definitely not.

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