Re:Superiority of the Free Market. (Score 1)

I'm sorry, I'm confused, are you actually trying to imply that the United States government hasn't heavily regulated and/or meddled in telecom/broadband? "Oh what? Crap" The telecoms have been given a virtual duopoly and massive billion dollar tax incentives for doing virtually nothing. There has been legislation or attempted legislation to remove smaller competitive companies from the market in many cases. There has been rampant subsidation. This is EXACTLY what happens when you don't let the free market run its course. There is no free market in telecom, the business simply goes to whichever company agrees to pay the local government the highest bid for unrestricted monopoly rights to the infrastructure. Regardless of your views on free market economics, calling the internet industry in America a free market and then saying "look at how poorly your free markets function" is one of the worst straw men I have seen on Slashdot in ages. Next you're going to point to the airline industry as the ideal Adam Smith model. +5 insightful