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My knee-jerk reaction was to agree with Cato, but the problem is that broadband isn't a free market. The telcoms have been legislated into monopolistic conglom
by dfranke 20y ago
My knee-jerk reaction was to agree with Cato, but the problem is that broadband isn't a free market. The telcoms have been legislated into monopolistic conglomerates. The damage caused by those laws is already done; repealing them now wouldn't help. So, although in a perfect world I'd be in favor of competing telcoms and against net neutrality laws, a government-created, government-regulated monopoly is better than a government-created, unregulated monopoly.
- MobileDigit 20y agoWhy would repealing laws not help now?
- dfranke 20y agoBecause the big telcoms already monopolize the infrastructure so no new startup is going to be able to compete with them head-on.
- lupin_sansei 20y agoBut repealing the laws would allow them to compete with each other.