Netflix to FCC: Allow government-owned Internet services

Netflix is declaring that cities and local governments should be allowed to build out their own Internet services. Netflix told the Federal Communications Commission that it should step in to block state laws in Tennessee and North Carolina that prevent cities from expanding their own services to compete with companies like Comcast or Cox. Cities “should not be hamstrung by state laws enacted at the urging of incumbent broadband providers seeking to maintain market dominance,” Netflix added. “When municipalities harness that technology to extend new opportunities to new communities, federal and state laws should encourage that initiative, or at the very least, get out of the way," it said.