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Stephen Downes

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It's a top priority of priovate internet access companies to prevent anyone from building publicly funded or cooperative alternatives to their monopoly. This has been known to be the case for some time, but it's unusual for the companies' communications to that effect to become public. But that's what happened here. I'm sure this strategy is confined to unimpoirtant things like internet access, and doesn't extend to any other areas where private companies are invested in essential public infrastructure like, say, health or education . See also TechDirt,

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