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" <owen@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
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