"In cities and towns across the U.S., a familiar story is replaying itself: Powerful companies are preventing local governments from providing an essential service to their citizens. More than 100 years ago, it was electricity. Today, it is the public provision of communications services."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15...wford.html
A true co-operative, public-owned communications system that includes telephone and Internet services is needed to prevent governments and corporations from curtailing the ability to share information in a digital era.
Original Page: http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-the-case-for-publicly-owned-internet
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