Bogus Experts Fight Your Right To Broadband

An anonymous reader writes, "Karl Bode of Broadband Reports takes aim at supposed telecom experts and think tankers who profess to love the 'free market,' but want to ban the country's un-wired towns and cities from offering broadband to their residents. If you didn't know, incumbent providers frequently determine towns and cities unprofitable to serve (fine), but then turn around and lobby for laws that make it illegal to serve themselves (not so fine). They then pay experts to profess their love for a free market and deregulation — unless that regulation helps their bottom line. A simple point: 'Strange how such rabid fans of a free-market wouldn't be interested in allowing market darwinism to play out.'"

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Re:You're oversimplifying

[Reality Master 101]

Paying Haliburton and other US contractors to rebuild Iraq--that's not socialism. The discriminator is this--who makes the money? If money is being spread among a bunch of little people, then that's socialism.

Sheesh. Put a little thought into this. The difference is that paying Haliburton is exchanging money for goods and services. We regularly do this with "little people" (as you call them) as well, it's just that Haliburton makes news (and is one of the few that are big enough to, say, rebuild Iraq).

Socialism is forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to another, with no goods or services in return, i.e., a "handout".