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> this will incentivize every nerd in your area to create an ISP to offer unfiltered internet Uh, how do you think these "nerds" are going to provide broadband

> this will incentivize every nerd in your area to create an ISP to offer unfiltered internet Uh, how do you think these "nerds" are going to provide broadband? It's highly capital intensive to lay cabling so you're either going to piggyback off of someone like Comcast (who is going to charge you a lot) or you're going to piggyback off of someone's wireless which is also very expensive.

dmix 9y ago
> you're either going to piggyback off of someone like Comcast That was the solution in Canada to generate competition, as the laying of cables was subsidized already, it was never a free market, as I'm sure the telecom industry in the US was hardly a free market... not sure why it's such a crazy idea. Why not focus on creating the basis for competition instead of centrally managing the intricacies of business... which has historically further limited competition. And if two companies engage in monopolistic practices, such as colluding to offer the same packages, that should be the domain of antitrust courts.
- BinaryIdiot 9y ago
  > not sure why it's such a crazy idea. It's not a _crazy_ idea (many have proposed such an idea) it's just not _possible_ in the United States in most areas.