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US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking"

Posted by kdawson on from the unicorns-in-the-tubes dept.

eWeekPete writes "Is the pipe half full or half empty? Not surprisingly, the talk at the second annual Tech Policy Summit was decidedly mixed. 'The US is still the most dynamic broadband economy in the world,' said Ambassador Richard Russell, the associate director of the White House's Office on Science and Technology Policy. 'As opposed to being miles ahead, though, we're only a little ahead.' But Yale Law School's Susan Crawford called Russell's position 'magical thinking. We're not doing well at all.' She proceeded to call the White House's effort 'completely inadequate on broadband competition.'"

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  1. A corollary to Niven's Law by spun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Any sufficiently stupid government initiative is indistinguishable from magic. That is to say, it doesn't work in the real world, but the masses like to watch the charlatans on stage do it any way.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
    1. Re:A corollary to Niven's Law by jo42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "A bureaucracy's only competence is sheer incompetence."