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Friday, June 24, 2005


Combat Monopolies Through Socialism?
Combat monopolies through government ownership? That's what the Institute for Local Self-Reliance wants Minnesota cities to do, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The group says that

Minnesota municipalities should consider building their own broadband infrastructure to keep prices affordable for Internet access.

[snip]

Morris said municipally owned broadband infrastructure can provide for "more robust competition" and be used as a way to protect customers "when private monopolies and duopolies misbehave."


At least one city in the state is now running a commercial venture, signing up residents to its wi-fi service.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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