[kwlug-disc] UBB comes to Teksavvy

[Adam Glauser]

On 1/30/2011 8:15 PM, Raul Suarez wrote:
> The argument comparing the Internet with electricity would be valid if we were
> paying the real price of the bandwith. I really doubt we do.

Actually, we've been paying artificially low prices for electricity for 
years.  One potential argument against having Internet access provided 
as a public utility is that politically-motivated shenanigans similar to 
those that go on in the energy sector would probably happen in the case 
of Internet as well.