Local governments heavily lobbied by Big Cable, in many cases... and outright sued by them when they attempt to do things like municipal broadband/wifi.
And in states like PA, the state government takes bribes from Comcast and slaps down municipalities that try to shake the boat. The Feds (if the corporatists continue to entrench power)
It will take big players like Google - and the increasing importance of access to data - to pry open this decades-old corruption scheme.
