<story><title>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/utah-isp-surveillance-state-corporations-925/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryankshaw</author><text>the owner of that company, pete ashdown, is an outright great guy.  he even tried to run for a senate seat last election[1] -- without PAC $ and a focus on passing a constitutional amendment to overturn citizen&amp;#x27;s united.  But instead utah got stuck with good ol&amp;#x27; Orrin Hatch, which was one of the chief proponents of building the NSA datacenter in bluffdale that is going to store all the stuff collected by PRISIM et. al. [2]&lt;p&gt;the world needs more Pete Ashdowns and more Xmissions.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://peteashdown.org/archive/2012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peteashdown.org&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/06/utah-senator-who-pushed-local-12-billion-nsa-data-center-now-silent/65222/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nextgov.com&amp;#x2F;big-data&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;utah-senator-who-pus...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/utah-isp-surveillance-state-corporations-925/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yaddayadda</author><text>In addition to the praises from @ryankschaw &amp;amp; @letney&amp;#x27;s, Pete is involved in a lot of local causes and provides free internet to many organizations.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been with Xmission for the better part of a decade now, and the service they provide has almost always rocked.  On the rare occasion when it didn&amp;#x27;t, their service department did rock, keeping customers informed as progress was made - even if the problem wasn&amp;#x27;t under Xmission&amp;#x27;s control (for example, at one point I was connected via a phone line which got cut - they actually followed up with the phone company and would call my cell phone to give me updates).</text></comment>