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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:46AM (#47659674)
> guess it's that easy for telcos to lobby the legislators

16 states having restrictions while two go explicitly pro-municipal broadband doesn’t seem like a lobbyist’s panacea. Skimming the list of states with restrictions, they look like red states trying to bridle their blue cities. Partisanship seems the more-parsimonious explanation.

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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by m_mueller on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:40PM (#47663284)
~100 million consumers (assuming average sized states are impacted) being essentially defrauded by a cartel of telcos - doesn't really matter what you wanna call it but I'd say it's a pretty major deal.
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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:03PM (#47667885)
> it's a pretty major deal

Never disagreed.

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