re: Obama's plan to save the internet draws bold reactions

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Do you know why such monopoly exists in the first place?

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Yeah, because the alternative is this:



Same reason we don't have a dozen local road companies building their own roads everywhere, a dozen local water companies laying their own pipes everywhere, and a dozen local electric companies putting up their own poles and running their own lines everywhere. Because that would be stupid and wasteful, and natural monopolies would arise anyway.

And the sooner a natural monopoly (or if government steps in on time to create one) comes about where infrastructure is concerned, the better. That's just the way it is, man. No need to blame big, bad government for stepping in where it's supposed to step in.