sporkme
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Re: Regulation by government is almost always bad
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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