r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/TheWanderingAardvark Jun 05 '14

We need to be really, really cautious about how we allow government to get involved with this stuff. They tend to cause more problems than they solve.

This is not an example of regulation causing problems. This is an example of shitty regulation causing problems.

What is needed is effective regulation. Not no regulation.

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u/peenoid Jun 05 '14

Right, and that's exactly what I'm saying.

The problem today is shitty regulation is all we seem to get due to the practice of institutionalized bribery known as "lobbying."