With Minnesota repeal, number of states restricting public broadband falls to 16.

With Minnesota repeal, number of states restricting public broadband falls to 16.

  • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    6 months ago

    Wait, a system where the government provides a service subsidized by taxes, and where if the citizens don’t like it they can get a private option, and the existence of the government option would force the private options to be innovative and competitive if they wanted to continue existing?

    Man, what a healthy approach to industry. I wonder in what other ways we could carefully apply this method?

    • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      19·
      6 months ago

      I’ve always thought that local gov should be able to provide a baseline level of access to the internet, with commercial vendors bringing services and value above that baseline. Sadly our elected representatives were convinced otherwise. I’m glad to see movement in the right direction though.