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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | Amazing Cluelessness Why do people continue to insist that the same government which legalized spam with the CAN-SPAM act, and is about to legalize spyware in the same manner, among other things, is in any way, shape or form able to "manage" our broadband.
If people want a guarantee that the best broadband we will ever get is a half working dialup connection on a good day, once a month, then by all means, pass a national broadband policy.
For some people to continue to insist that the government is the answer to every perceived problem even though we know of the government's track record in this department, is a textbook illustration of insanity.
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1 edit | People that also complain the same government that wants to tap our lines and listen to us should also be the same ones that lay down and manage broadband we well.
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 marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
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The problem here is that the market is clearly not able to achieve the goals being set out.
There is no information transparency. There is poor accounting of benefits. There are rapidly developing monopoly situations. The market failures in the broadband market are all over the place.
Hence, this is a situation that calls for government intervention to solve. Right now though, we clearly suffer a rational ignorance failure (as this article demonstrates well), as well as heavy rent seeking and a short time horizon (see how many times complaints appear in this thread about recouping infrastructure costs in rural areas over a long time frame). The government failures are so clear it is almost laughable. We need to have government intervention against the market failures (and only against the market failures), clear legislative rational ignorance through non-governmental research support, push to eliminate rent seeking by regulated entities (all regulated entities), and most importantly extend our broadband deployment cost recovering time frame across multiple lifetimes.
If we do that, the issue will be solved and solved for a fraction of the cost of electric and phone deployment.
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said by pnh102:Why do people continue to insist that the same government which legalized spam with the CAN-SPAM act, and is about to legalize spyware in the same manner, among other things, is in any way, shape or form able to "manage" our broadband. If people want a guarantee that the best broadband we will ever get is a half working dialup connection on a good day, once a month, then by all means, pass a national broadband policy. For some people to continue to insist that the government is the answer to every perceived problem even though we know of the government's track record in this department, is a textbook illustration of insanity. Believe it or not some idiots actually consider spam a useful source for websites to buy crap from. Those same people also consider the crappy "dealfinder" tool bars useful as well.
That's why the government is making it "legal" , they are just trying to get it recognized as spam and spyware, as to attempt to make it easier to get rid of. Which we know isn't the case but WTH.
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