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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Good luck with government regulation of your network
by naturalethic 12y ago
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Good luck with government regulation of your network.
- scelerat 12y agoI'm not sure what you're getting at... I can at the very least vote for the people who are writing laws and making policy. The people, via democratic government, have (theoretically) some influence on how the network is to be administered and regulated. If rules are left to the whims of a single monopoly or a small oligopoly of network providers, the only options are "take it" or "leave it."
- naturalethic 12y agoThe government is a monopoly. The network providers that currently hold monopolies only do so due to government protection. When it comes to the government itself, the only option is "take it", so that's even worse.
- kaonashi 12y agoYou realize the entire internet was fostered along from its infancy by that very government. I think the takeaway is that good government is good, bad government is bad. I'm not sure why this is so difficult.
- naturalethic 12y agoThat is true, however it does not follow that the government was necessary to create it. "Good" government is "bad" if you believe monopolies are "bad".
- kaonashi 12y ago> "Good" government is "bad" if you believe monopolies are "bad". It sounds like there's some loanable funds thinking lurking behind that statement.
- naturalethic 12y agoCan you explain? I'm not familiar with "loanable funds thinking"
- kaonashi 12y agoThe belief that government spending is zero-sum wrt private spending.