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Municipalities, by definition, engage in anticompetitive practices. Electricity, garbage, sewer, water. For utilities, the municipality is the arbiter of who ge
by lukeschlather 16y ago
Municipalities, by definition, engage in anticompetitive practices. Electricity, garbage, sewer, water. For utilities, the municipality is the arbiter of who gets to provide them. Often it does them itself. There's no reason Internet should be any different. Furthermore, there are a lot of reasons Internet should be exactly the same.
- iwwr 16y agoThere's one thing to be offering these services but another thing to ban competition in the same areas. Even worse, the monopoly is justified in the name of 'natural monopoly', yet there is still the need to legislate this monopoly (as if nature needed any encouragement). Furthermore, as soon as you get a local monopoly on internet access, you are only one city council decision away from local censorship. After all, he who pays gets to call the shots ("Porn on the tax-paid internet? No way! Think of the children.")
- jellicle 16y ago> There's one thing to be offering these services but another thing to ban competition in the same areas. You are aware that this article is about a bill, written by Time-Warner, to ban municipalities from competing with them, right?