For added fun, they're completely unresponsive to removal flags and emails. A friend of mine is on their with her full name, address, and a basically text-book defamatory post, and so for we can't even talk to anyone about it getting pulled down.

Did I mention that my friend has a unique name, and that it is pulling up as the second Google link for her name?

Or you can have Geek Squad give you the same crappy tech support, or any of a dozen EECS students at KU that hang fliers around town...

Again, not saying Sunflower is great (or good), but compared to Time Warner or Comcast, forget it.

Just to be clear (sounds a little bit like I'm cheer leading for the World Company in my last post). All competition and added voices are great, but Lawrence is exactly the kind of city where Freenet can be a success and have an impact, or businesses can band together to print their own local currency, or the community mercantile can chase the national chain health-food store out of town, or...

Lawrence native, here...

Two-part NPR story of the media "monopoly" from another point of view-- convergence saves local media, instead of ominous local company controls resident's hearts and minds.

I won't necessarily defend the quality of the reporting coming out of the Journal World and Sunflower Cable (there is the occasional article that makes me cringe), but it could be much, much worse for a city of Lawrence's size, and the World company has always been very tech-forward (developing Django framework, early cable internet provider, offering 20Mbps internet service in Kansas)

Lawrence isn't really a city where independent voices have a hard time getting heard-- this is the city who's mayor proclaimed International DaDa Month, and is the home of a large university (and the associated student and faculty publications), as well as being with in 30 miles of news media from Kansas City and Topeka.