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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Because those are essential services with respect to public health. You cannot say the same about Internet service.
That said, I do believe that the citizen's within a municipality should determine whether or not municipal broadband goes ahead. Claiming otherwise would be denying democracy in preference of far more dangerous ideologies. Municipal broadband also has several advantages, ranging from lowering the digital divide to providing the foundations for economic development.
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Actually, according to several govt regulations, it is an essential service.
Now that kids must have internet access to do schoolwork, they get added to the groups where it is a right (many of those on govt assistance, I suspect, along with their taxpayer paid cell phones they get now).
After all, cable tv is now a basic civil right for those in jail.