[ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica

[Brian Mathis]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> To me, the better solution is not allow the there to be local
> monopolies. In many communities, the monopoly exists because local
> governments granted an exclusive franshise to a cable provider. A
> single, local provider in theory means better local control but CobbEMC
> management had been defrauding the members for years. As someone who
> lives in their service area I would love the chance to use someone else.
>


With services like this, you need to have local monopolies on some level,
otherwise you'd have a different set of wires running everywhere for each
service provider, and the streets would be constantly under construction as
other providers were installing new lines, etc..., which has other negative
impacts.  This is the reason that exclusive franchises are granted in the
first place (often with large tax breaks).


❧ Brian Mathis
@orev
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