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Well, we aren't going to get competition. Destroying net neutrality regulations? Check. Destroying the regulations that protect the telecom monopolies? That

• dominotw 9y ago
  > regulations that protect the telecom monopolies? curious, what is an example of this?
  • TheCoelacanth 9y ago
    Many states have passed laws that prevent local governments from creating municipal Internet services. Since Internet service is textbook inter-state commerce, the federal government would have authority to override those laws.
    • dominotw 9y ago
      >the federal government would have authority to override those laws. Yea i guess thats more of an example of inaction. I was looking for a specific regulation that helps telecom companies.
      • rectang 9y ago
        That's exactly the problem: selective actions favoring the monopolists are pursued aggressively (e.g. demolition of Net Neutrality), while actions which might actually harm monopolists are deferred indefinitely. Thus the effect of supposed "deregulation" is to deliver the market to the monopolists.
        • deleted 9y ago
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        • dominotw 9y ago
          Yes but I was referring to comment saying there are current regulations that helps telecom monopolies that govt needs to destroy but it isn't. I was wondering what those regulations are that need to be destroyed.
          • smichel17 9y ago
            I'm confused. Isn't that exactly what this is? > current regulations that helps telecom monopolies that govt needs to destroy but it isn't There are regulations at the state level. The federal government has the authority to stop these regulations. Yet they don't. Whether the bad regulation was implemented by state or federal government seems rather inconsequential.
          • TheCoelacanth 9y ago
            State laws that outlaw the creation of municipal ISPs.