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A comment on Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet.

Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by ilyt on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:39PM (#36077320)
> Senate Bill 152 was promoted by the cable industry as a way to prevent wasting taxpayer money on infrastructure projects, like municipal internet.

Yes, I'm sure it was to "not waste taxpayers money" and not to remove competition...

Hell, why cable companies had a say in that in at all?

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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by kevviiinn on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:01PM (#36077553)
Because in a capitalist society, capital owners are in control
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by zx8080 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:04PM (#36078524)
Can it be called democracy then?
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by kevviiinn on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:11PM (#36078561)
They call it that to placate the masses
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by dopidopHN on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:05AM (#36082564)
Do you feel represented ?
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by kevviiinn on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:57AM (#36083444)
I sure don't
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by dopidopHN on Saturday May 27, 2023 @06:36PM (#36099100)
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by DubiousPusher on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:36PM (#36077849)
It's hard to remember but this is the level of tech discourse in 2010. Though I guess it's not any better now.

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313

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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by ilyt on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:46PM (#36077934)
The saddest part is that he's still in power.
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by the_only_law on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:58PM (#36078491)
I’d be particularly curious if there were any projects in between that truly were a “waste of tax payers money”. That should tell you something.
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by dopidopHN on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:04AM (#36082556)
Companies are people and money is speech? And we’re all very free.
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by p_l on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:19AM (#36084508)
Consider that unrelated to all the slavery stuff, Confederacy had constitutionally banned infrastructure improvements by government...
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