Re:Nationalize the internet
by skywhopper on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:11PM
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If we have to choose between direct government control or government-endorsed cartel control that will just ease towards full monopoly sooner or later, I would rather just skip to nationalization so we can start talking about how we reprivatize it in a new, competitive fashion.
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Telecom is like health care. What we have now combines all the worst things about a private system with all the worst things about a state run system.
If you think we have the worst things about a state-run system, you haven't tried using the internet in certain countries which do not need to be named.
It's far from as bad as it can get.
> skip to nationalization so we can start talking about how we reprivatize it in a new, competitive fashion.
Can you give an example of this successfully happening with other industries of comparable size? It seems like a pipe dream to imagine giving our government total China-like power over the internet only for them to benevolently hand it back later.