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G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
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Re: Regulation by government is almost always bad
"The railroads will grow and expand much more quickly and will provide more content the less the government sticks its nose into it. And whenever there is government regulation the costs will go up as sure as night follows day."
"The telephone systems will grow and expand much more quickly and will provide more content the less the government sticks its nose into it. And whenever there is government regulation the costs will go up as sure as night follows day."
"The highway system will grow and expand much more quickly and will provide more content the less the government sticks its nose into it. And whenever there is government regulation the costs will go up as sure as night follows day."
"The electric grid will grow and expand much more quickly and will provide more content the less the government sticks its nose into it. And whenever there is government regulation the costs will go up as sure as night follows day."
Hmm.. beginning to see a pattern here? The internet as it's grown is a NATURAL MONOPOLY. By definition, it will NOT provide the best value vs. a capitalist competitive industry. Of course, retire_rich and his fellow astrotufers want to suppress that piece of information, as do their spiritual kin the 'fundies'.
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
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| I'll split retire_rich/golfnsun/old_repub/road_warrior's and g_poobah's points...
On the content and backbone infrastructure, keep it hand's off. On that side issues are very simple and the bottom-line driven way that part works is pretty decent. There's still a shakeout waiting there (ie: "Dedicated Server!! $25/Month!!!" will eventually fail), but the fact that I can buy a few rack units of space and a decent amount of bandwidth and have a site available to the entire internet (until SBC muddies that up with their internet toll charges) for around $400 a month is pretty amazing.
The last mile is where it gets tricky. We are headed towards a cable/telco duopoly where your choices for techy/nerd services dwindle to nothing (even if you want to pay a reasonable premium for them). I could live with a single fiber from a CO to my residence with that fiber under regulation and handled by a single company whose ONLY business is providing that last mile and operating the most basic level of cross-connections to various providers of video/internet/private net/phone/radio/whatever-the-future-brings. That would really please me. Then let the battle happen for each service that can be carried over that line.
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