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New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill - Ars Technica
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Love to means-test fucking everything. You can't just have $15/mo internet. You have to plead poverty for fear of middle class or (god forbid) rich people getting a basic utility at a sensible price.
Nevermind how means testing inevitably creates these legal hurdles for administrators to leap over. The act of means testing is inevitably what businesses target in an effort to avoid compliance. "Oh! It's too hard to tell who qualifies! Undo burden! Undo burden!" It wouldn't be a burden if the ISP was limited to a universal flat rate. It wouldn't be a burden if municipalities owned and operated their own independent flat-rate internet service as a public utility.