Consumerist reports on a proposed Sunflower State tech crackdown: Kansas Legislature Wants To Stop Any Other Kansas Cities From Getting Google Fiber
The blogger verdict on this move: "A law that claims to protect competition by prohibiting competitors from entering the field? That’s an interesting trick. In its very limited expansion so far, municipal fiber doesn’t seem to end competition as much as it seems to increase it."
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The blogger verdict on this move: "A law that claims to protect competition by prohibiting competitors from entering the field? That’s an interesting trick. In its very limited expansion so far, municipal fiber doesn’t seem to end competition as much as it seems to increase it."
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So.. Maybe this explains why Overland Park botched its chance at Google Fiber? Just a wild conspiracy theory....
ReplyDeleteIt does seem like a whole lot of subsidies for one company.
ReplyDeleteThey don't make those subsidies available to TWC or Comcast.
Business claims to hate government unless it can be used to stifle competition, subsidize certain groups, or support prices. Then government is great, and that's why many billions are spent each year in Washington and state capitals on lobbying.
ReplyDeleteNothing new to see here, please move along.
Cable fights back. Spend money on lobbyists instead of customer service... brilliant
ReplyDeleteOverland Park didn't botch anything.
ReplyDeleteThey sent Google the message if your going to do business here your going to do it right and pay your fair share.
LOL @ pay your fair share to do business in OP. Literally the queen of corporate welfare in this country. No one does business there without wild subsidies. Too bad the rubes that live there are too blind to see that they are a Ponzi scheme for corporatist tit suckers.
ReplyDeleteBlocking Google fiber is the kind of thing you would expect from the Kansas Legislature.
ReplyDeleteA more retrograde bunch of brain-damaged fat white apes never existed anywhere outside of a zoo for retarded animals.
Kansas is a state totally run by wing-nut christian fuckwits. Expect only the worst from them, because that's what you're going to get.
Maybe someone told them Google Fiber was a type of birth control and they freaked out about it.
DeleteIn other words cox and time warner are squeezing on their nads.
ReplyDeleteGoogle knew what they were doing when they started in KCK. The KCK give away program was not duplicated in other cities. Boo hoo and end out the lobbyist.
ReplyDeleteIt's not too late to stop this.
ReplyDeleteKansans are working to kill SB 304. If you think issue is important, please take a moment to weigh in.
http://kansansforbroadbandaccess.com/
Uhhh Washington state already has this law...so maybe it's just bad policy not some right wing Christian fucktard problem
ReplyDeleteBeside, ks leg is no cookies than the slobbering retards in Jeff city
TW is the biggest POS cable system! Yes you bet they feel the heat! People cant wait to dump those SHs. TW sevice sucks!
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