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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by rayiner on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:06PM (#15145096)
They don't. Federal regulation is vastly superior to state and local regulation of utilities. Remember, it's local governments that created telco and electric monopolies in the first place, a mess which Congress has spent decades trying to clean up.
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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by summer_steven on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:07PM (#15145367)
Then by your logic, is global regulation superior to Federal regulation?
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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by rayiner on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:18PM (#15145414)
It's not a logical inference. It's an observation.
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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by btian on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:12PM (#15145620)
ISO standards are pretty good I would say.
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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by tedunangst on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:49PM (#15145987)
But much less fun than going into the basement of the hall of records to see how long a foot is in this county.
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Re:Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One... by philipps on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:43AM (#15147570)
Your comparison doesn't make sense. Local, state, and federal levels are all part of one country. There is no equivalent institution at the global level.

For global challenges like climate change, regulation at the global level seems like the right responses.

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