Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 27, 2011, at 12:35 AM, Michael Painter wrote:
Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
As such, I'm sure that such a move would be vocally opposed by
the current owners of the LMI who enjoy leveraging it to extort
monopolistic pricing from substandard services.
As I noted, yes, that's Verizontal, and they have apparently succeeded
in lobbying to have it made *illegal* in several states. I don't have
citations to hand, but there are a couple sites that track muni fiber;
I can find some.
Cheers,
-- jra
Laws can be changed if we can get enough momentum behind
doing the right thing.
Owen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Yes, that's the reality we're faced with... The question is how do we
overcome it and resolve the situation in the public interest. We can
either work to resolve the problem, or, accept it as fait acompli and
wear the yoke of corporate slavery for the rest of our lives. I, personally,
prefer to look for alternatives.
Owen
Yeah, well, I have an "Anonymous" t-shirt, but clearly I'm in the minority.
Maybe a 'turncoat' member of the Plutocracy, with multi-millions of $ laying around, can be persuaded to mount a
Presidential campaign and try the "Change We Can Believe In" schtick again?...naaa.
Your turn.
--Michael
