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Telecoms Suing Municipalities That Plan Broadband Access
Law.com has up a review of ongoing and historical cases of telecoms suing municipalities that plan broadband networks. In many cases those same telecoms have spent years ignoring as potential customers the cities and towns now undertaking Net infrastructure projects, only to turn around and sue them. One lawyer who has defended many municipalities in this position says, "This is similar to electrification a century ago when small towns and rural areas were left behind, so they formed their own authorities." Bob Frankston has been writing for years about the financial model of artificial scarcity that underlies the telecoms businss plans. This post gives some of the background to the telecoms' fear of abundance.
how is this troll, are mod that retarted these days!!! do they only get car analogies?
This reminds me of my experiences with cars in highschool. When I'd go to a garage house to pick her up for the dance, invariably the mechanic would make me wait 10~15min to finish whatever the hell they do that takes so long before we continued on. Should I complain or threaten to go to someone else a wrench would come my way.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
OH SHUT UP.
Sanitation is not "necessary infrastructure". Electricity is not "necessary infrastructure". Telephone lines are not "necessary infrastructure". The Amish show all this quite well.
As someone who lived around the Amish I can tell you this is a complete lie.
The Amish do use cars, phones and refrigerators. The only difference is they don't use their own or put it on their property. They will all agree to pay for a phone and then find someone who will allow them to put it on their land so it's not on Amish land. They pay locals for lifts in their cars. The Amish do use electricity. I can only imagine how the local Amish shop would have managed in the winter with no lights.
The Amish society is becoming more inbred and dying off because they are so backwards and they know that hence the reason they've been making these changes to their way of life over the decades. Just because you watched Witness doesn't mean you know how Amish people live.