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Seems like you missed the part where large ISPs have successfully forced states to ban municipalities from building their own networks.

It doesn't matter how hard or easy something is if it's illegal, even if the laws that make it illegal are themselves extremely obvious examples of regulatory corruption.



States and municipalities don’t need to build it; small community-run organizations (nonprofits or not) can do so in Oregon.


The world is a lot larger than the US. Why do you assume only municipalities build their own networks?


Because the article is specifically about the insanity that is "internet in rural US"?


Not all states. About 20 do, the rest do not.




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