On Thursday 23 April 2009, David Storandt wrote: > > For a government group presumably that group being "We the people" > to compete against private industry, would those be the very same industries that (knowingly or otherwise) received lucrative deals over 30 years on the public dime, only to monopolize and drive the tech into the ground? From Singer and the baby-bells in 84 to the Sprint/MCI fiasco, to present day comcast, charter...
> especially markets with competition already, is a tough moral sell to
> capitalist standards.
Moral, that's a good one:)
"with competition", do you, more accurately, mean infrastructure? as that
model
seems more to result in a lack of competition in the markets.
If our 'private' model works so well how is it that we rank so far from the top
compared to other countries
with a tech that "we the sheeple" paid for (via DARPA, NSI, grant funding to
BBN,
all the tax monies that went into univ research...)
Nulty may be a lot of things, but he's the only champion we have to bring
unfettered access to
municipalities and their residents. I respect your being 'in the marketplace'
as it were,
but how many other local companies are there like yourself AOT fairpoint,
time-warner, ...
The entire issue of Access to information rests in the hands of people who
would be very happy
to throttle via TOS, to datamine via PHORM and DPI, to tap and monitor, and
otherwise do their
part to ensure we live in a big-brother, nanny-state that lords over and
controls what
we can do or view and what we cannot whilst they continue to suck at the public
trough
in attempts to become "too big to fail".
Just my .02
Long live muni!
>
> -D
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