It's the cluelessness, stupid
Aug. 3rd, 2005 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsyth"U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, recently introduced H.R. 2726, a bill that would ban cities from running communications networks that compete against private-sector telecom companies. Sessions, a former SBC executive, argued local governments should not compete with private companies.
He and other opponents of municipal broadband argue that almost half of Internet households have broadband that is getting faster and cheaper over time. Building more networks, opponents say, not only threatens private enterprise but wastes taxpayer dollars."
As Sifu Tweety, over at The Poor Man says, "Fair enough! For what’s the sense in letting cities and towns spend their own local tax revenue on free or low-cost municipal wireless when some giant telecom conglomerate might some day wish to offer it’s own high cost, marginally profitable wired broadband service in approximately the same area." (There's more, including profanity, but I swear too, so)
But hey, everybody knows government's inherently evil, and companies are inherently good, right? Not that he might have any conflict of interest at all, or anything.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Everyday Evil
He and other opponents of municipal broadband argue that almost half of Internet households have broadband that is getting faster and cheaper over time. Building more networks, opponents say, not only threatens private enterprise but wastes taxpayer dollars."
As Sifu Tweety, over at The Poor Man says, "Fair enough! For what’s the sense in letting cities and towns spend their own local tax revenue on free or low-cost municipal wireless when some giant telecom conglomerate might some day wish to offer it’s own high cost, marginally profitable wired broadband service in approximately the same area." (There's more, including profanity, but I swear too, so)
But hey, everybody knows government's inherently evil, and companies are inherently good, right? Not that he might have any conflict of interest at all, or anything.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Everyday Evil
