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Greg Helledy on 30 Apr 2014 12:17:42 -0700
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Re: [PLUG] Free Wi-Fi issues
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- From: Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>
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- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Free Wi-Fi issues
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:17:44 -0400
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Realistically, the costs would be rolled into the property tax, as are
the other municipal services that are provided "free": street lighting
and snowplowing, trash removal, and so on. So, expect to see higher
property taxes, and rents.
An interesting question is whether it's more cost-effective for
individuals to buy their own bandwidth, vs. a neighborhood contracting
for it and collecting via property taxes. Other questions come up when
the government is your ISP: will having direct access to internet use
logs (at least by MAC address) be used in police investigations?
Conversely, what will be done when illegal activity is found to be
conducted through free municipal wifi? Will anonymous (or
pseudononymous) connections lead to more illegal activity being conducted?
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On 4/30/2014 3:00 PM, plug-request@lists.phillylinux.org wrote:
Interesting article but it boggles my mind how people can demand that
Internet Access be free. Someone has to foot the bill for the
infrastructure that brings WiFi to the masses. Who is getting that bill?
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