> They're simply no longer receiving a subsidy. ... You can create really efficient pipelines to keep them in poverty for the rest of their life if you're not careful, though.
All that debate is missing the point: it's well-known US residential broadband price ger gigabyte is much higher than Europe, specifically because the US FCC, FTC allow regional monopolies to happen. Most of the broadband mergers of the last two decades should never have been permitted. Covid merely temporarily shone a spotlight on that. Broadband regulation is the issue, not welfare.
This on the same day Reid Hoffman donated to Democrats urging them to fire Lina Khan from the FTC.
All that debate is missing the point: it's well-known US residential broadband price ger gigabyte is much higher than Europe, specifically because the US FCC, FTC allow regional monopolies to happen. Most of the broadband mergers of the last two decades should never have been permitted. Covid merely temporarily shone a spotlight on that. Broadband regulation is the issue, not welfare.
This on the same day Reid Hoffman donated to Democrats urging them to fire Lina Khan from the FTC.