America: the best representative democracy money can buy.<p>And when the power of the second estate exceeds the king's, popular revolution or collapse is not far off.
<i>"AT&T CEO John Stankey yesterday called President Biden's plan to fund municipal broadband networks "misguided" and said the US shouldn't pay for any broadband deployment in areas that already have networks. But as AT&T and other ISPs lobby against public networks and government-funded competition, Stankey said he is confident that Congress will steer legislation in the more "pragmatic" direction that AT&T favors."</i><p>I suppose that's what he's supposed to say. Good to at least get a discussion about this topic. How good internet people should have is very much a question of viewpoint. Is 10mbit good internet?