tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post3594899236870777226..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: Kansas Attempting To Block City Broadband Internet Access Programs By State LawSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-78205056405466255682014-02-03T10:31:56.833-06:002014-02-03T10:31:56.833-06:00Bryan, I used to believe in capitalism until I rea...Bryan, I used to believe in capitalism until I realized that once corporations reach a certain size, they have no interest in the "miracle of the marketplace" except to forestall its operation with as many anticompetitive practices as they can dream up. And these days, government either seems to have no interest in preventing those practices, or else there are so many Republican judges that corp's don't even need to bother buying them to prevent any constraints on their anticompetitive activities. These days, when someone piously intones something about the "free market," I reply, "show me one!"Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-68604912651634045962014-02-03T00:14:06.306-06:002014-02-03T00:14:06.306-06:00The telecoms are pushing these laws to keep locali...The telecoms are pushing these laws to keep localities from entering the market in any way, even markets that the telecoms have no interest in entering themselves.<br /><br />Pennsylvania already has one of the these laws, and it was used to keep Philadelphia from creating its own WiFi system for the city. The city wanted to recoup some of the costs of linking the city government together by offering a new service to residents, and the telecoms went ballistic. They don't want anyone to compete with them, and they go to absurd lengths to prevent it.Bryanhttp://whynow.dumka.us/noreply@blogger.com