Re: Government should not compete with the private sector.
There's tons of competition. Wireless ISPs (WISPs) currently serve an estimated 3 million customers in the US, and cellular broadband is nearly ubiquitous. (Fiber, remember, is nothing but "wireless in a very expensive tube.") And anyplace where there's a cable company, there's a telephone company too. If folks want still MORE competition, they can incent it for far less money than it takes to drive it away. But asking government to provide broadband is like asking the DMV to service your computer. (Shudder.)
Tell that to the citizens of Wilson, North Carolina.
No--- you can't have broadband--- and don't you dare to build it yourselves! That's illegal! -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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