garagerock
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Re: Yeah, but what do you expect from a bunch of libertardians?
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"As the new century begins, dominant assumptions about government, popular culture, and many social and business institutions are in transition. Some of these shifts reinforce traditional American ideas about liberty and limited government. But the backlash against free markets and increased choices is gaining ground in many quarters
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from: »www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti···undation
If there is such a backlash against "free markets and increased choices", then what is their beef with municipal broadband?
1. It is another choice and competitor in the oh-so idealized "Free Market"
2. If the "free market" can't handle another competitor that either serves consumers better and/or where others will not, why is that bad for anyone?
The bottom line is that if the citizenry asks their municipal government (through a voter referendum) to provide municipal broadband, the idea that corporations can quash that request is an affront to the citizens liberty, the very thing this "thinktank" is supposedly protecting. |
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Steve
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Tustin, CA | There's a difference between having a view that you don't agree with, and claiming that view has been bought and paid for. Pick one. |
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| said by Steve  :There's a difference between having a view that you don't agree with, and claiming that view has been bought and paid for. Pick one. Yeah, however, the grant or donation or contribution or bribe or gift of money, whatever it was, from ATT certainly can give the appearance of impropriety and conflict of interest. Whether or not it exists doesn't matter. The fact is that they took it and then released a "report" that falls right in line with ATT's agenda. This, frankly, hurts the credibility of their "findings."
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