ContrarianAgrarian on Nostr: Giant businesses promoting government regulation to crush competition? ...
Giant businesses promoting government regulation to crush competition?
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quoting note1nck…7vrpCurrently sixteen states have laws — usually ghost written by regional telecom monopolies — restrict or outright ban community broadband. Some of these laws are outright bans on community broadband, basically letting Comcast or AT&T veto your local infrastructure voting rights. Others erect elaborate, cumbersome restrictions on the financing and expansion of such networks and pretend that’s not a ban.