Re:Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ...
by takeda on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:41PM
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Totally agree, other thing consider is that if something is done 'free' with government it will always end up being taxed to maintain the infrastructure. So in the end we'll end up paying extra for something that is restricted and only benefits one (or few) entities.
Far better approach would be to remove laws that enforce duopoly, and allow individual cities to provide free (unrestricted) Internet access[1]. Once that's done we can think about providing free (price) service.
Otherwise we will always end up with crappy and expensive service.
[1] still allow private companies to use the infrastructure, but charge them to use it (to cover cost of maintaining it).
Far better approach would be to remove laws that enforce duopoly, and allow individual cities to provide free (unrestricted) Internet access[1]. Once that's done we can think about providing free (price) service.
Otherwise we will always end up with crappy and expensive service.
[1] still allow private companies to use the infrastructure, but charge them to use it (to cover cost of maintaining it).