Ideally, people should be able to choose another provider. Unfortunately, the many of the ISPs in America exhibit monopolistic tendencies. What you call "effect

Ideally, people should be able to choose another provider. Unfortunately, the many of the ISPs in America exhibit monopolistic tendencies. What you call "effective Socialism" is just encouraging competition, like the article says. People in big cities usually have a choice of ISPs, but in rural towns, often there is only one "high-speed" ISP. It's kinda a sad state of affairs. I've recently gained a very interesting view, as I'm currently living in Japan. I'm American born though.