Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr...
by valec on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:30PM
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> Municipal broadband is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices.
prices are artificially high due to pseudo or actual monopolies in part due to existing regulation and prohibitive costs.
internet is effectively a utility anyways so cheaper is better.
- Municipal broadband expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.
not necessarily a bad thing
- Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from broadband access.
a large majority of residents use internet in most of the USA. either way, removing the right for a community to choose seems heavy handed and anti-libertarian to me
- Municipal broadband is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.
does everything have to be exploitable for profit??
prices are artificially high due to pseudo or actual monopolies in part due to existing regulation and prohibitive costs. internet is effectively a utility anyways so cheaper is better.
- Municipal broadband expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.
not necessarily a bad thing
- Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from broadband access.
a large majority of residents use internet in most of the USA. either way, removing the right for a community to choose seems heavy handed and anti-libertarian to me
- Municipal broadband is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.
does everything have to be exploitable for profit??