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I am all for municapal internet in the US, but really it is a bandaid. The fundamental problem is how competition is regulated in the US. Most European countrie
by jernfrost 9y ago
I am all for municapal internet in the US, but really it is a bandaid. The fundamental problem is how competition is regulated in the US. Most European countries I know of did not achieve high speed internet by making it municpal. Rather we did it by forcing competition. Cell phone and broadband infrastructure owners in Europe typicall have to let competition offer services on their hardware. Same with power. Here in Norway companies owning the power cables going into my house are not allowed to exclude competitors from using their lines to send power to me.
You, need struct regulation of natural monpolies and that is what the US lacks. That is why Americans ironically end up with government solutions.
See the same with so many things. Government mandated minimum eages because unions are so weak. In Nordic countries, Germany etc there has never been a need for go ernment to provide this as unions have solved the problem with exploitative wages.
Ironically by fighting government regulation you just end up with more government.
- ihsw2 9y agoHow do you reconcile that with the fact that competition is by all means opposed? Sections of the country are carved up into fiefdoms where rent-seeking is the norm.