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    Michael Hiltzik: FCC commissioner attacks municipal broadband systems, claiming First Amendment issue

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2018 5 minutes

    The Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission has set new standards in delivering favors to the big businesses under its jurisdiction at the expense of consumer protection. But FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly may have established his own high-water mark last week with an attack on municipal broadband systems.

    In a speech Oct. 24 to the Media Institute, a Washington think tank, O'Rielly labeled "state-owned and -operated broadband networks" a "particularly ominous ... threat to the First Amendment." He accused them of having engaged in "significant First Amendment mischief."

    Interestingly, O'Rielly didn't point to any specific cases of such "mischief," much less make the case that publicly owned broadband networks have infringed on the First Amendment. The reason for that may be that there are no such cases. "There's certainly no

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