Candidate for Michigan Governor Embraces Community Broadband Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed is promising to build a statewide, government-run broadband network if he's elected to office. According to the Daily Beast, El-Sayed has introduced a internet for all plan (pdf) that highlights how 1.2 million Michiganders do not have access to high­speed internet, and there are 16 counties in Michigan where at least 50% of residents have no access to broadband whatsoever.

His plan involves ensuring a broadband network that respected net neutrality would be made available to all state residents by 2030. "In today’s world, where the Internet is such a huge part of our lives, not having it is like not having roads in your community," El-Sayed says of the effort. "If you’re a kid, 15, 16-years-old trying to finish your science project and you’ve got dial-up speed internet, you’re not going to be able to do it. And it’s affecting our communities both urban and rural." Instead of endlessly throwing subsidies at AT&T, Verizon and Comcast after years of failed promises, the candidate argues that money could easily be spent on encouraging a collection of regional, locally-owned networks. Networks that actually respect things like privacy and net neutrality. “I’m just saying that instead of that $1.5 billion subsidizing some big corporation to do the job that they said they want to do in the first place, let’s invest it publicly and make sure that we are empowering local communities through a public trust,” El-Sayed argued. “I’m just saying that instead of that $1.5 billion subsidizing some big corporation to do the job that they said they want to do in the first place, let’s invest it publicly and make sure that we are empowering local communities through a public trust,” El-Sayed argued.







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He took offense to a question about Sharia law and refused to answer it. Instead of just playing the game and saying "I don't support Sharia law" he threw a tantrum which most likely cost him the Democratic nomination. He was kind of a long shot anyway.



But yes, he's young and has the right idea. We have geographic oligopolies that leave a significant portion of the country without broadband. Link - » www.freep.com/story/news ··· 7828002/ He took offense to a question about Sharia law and refused to answer it. Instead of just playing the game and saying "I don't support Sharia law" he threw a tantrum which most likely cost him the Democratic nomination. He was kind of a long shot anyway.But yes, he's young and has the right idea. We have geographic oligopolies that leave a significant portion of the country without broadband.