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Didn’t see in the article what they define as “low income”. As a general rule of thumb I don’t like government and bureaucracy interfering with free market, how
by nodesocket 2y ago
Didn’t see in the article what they define as “low income”. As a general rule of thumb I don’t like government and bureaucracy interfering with free market, however I see the potential benefits here. Glad they excluded smaller ISPs with less than 20k customers.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Didn’t see in the article what they define as “low income” Believe it's these standards: https://www.lifelinesupport.org/do-i-qualify/ https://www.lifelinesupport.org/do-i-qualify/
- johnnyanmac 2y agoGiven the "free market" as of late, I would love if the government "interfered" more so people can get basic services that is standard in every other country. It's more a question why some of these were privatized to begin with.
- airstrike 2y agoISPs aren't really a free market, they are more like natural monopolies because it's virtually impossible to compete given large capex costs, long dated infrastructure projects, etc Given the lack of competition, this is precisely the kind of non-free market in which government regulation is not only fine but advisable.