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Red states also seem to be more in bed with the entrenched ISP monopolies. The states which are prohibiting municipal broadband are all red states.
by s73v3r 12y ago
Red states also seem to be more in bed with the entrenched ISP monopolies. The states which are prohibiting municipal broadband are all red states.
- ams6110 12y agoIt may be less about being "in bed" with the ISPs than the philosophical point of view that internet service is properly a private sector concern, not a governmental one.
- shmerl 12y agoAll the "philosophical" views become rather hypocritical when those who have them receive a lot of money from monopolists who want to prevent competition. So stop the nonsense please. It's not about any philosophy. It's about money.
- rayiner 12y agoSource?
- shmerl 12y agohttps://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=C&cid=N00003105&newMem=N&cycle=2014 https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=C&c...
- rayiner 12y agoWorth reading the footnote: > This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2013-2014 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
- shmerl 12y ago> The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. And that makes a difference how exactly? ISPs are owned and controlled by various family clans and key people there. In the end, the result is that politicians are paid to push the agenda of existing monopolists.
- s73v3r 12y agoIf that were even remotely true, they wouldn't be enacting laws to protect the entrenched ISP monopolies. They'd be passing laws reinstating things like local loop unbundling.