Today, it seems like there is a plague of (fake) "libertarian" arguments for protecting essentially government-sponsored enterprises from ... the government.
IE, the oligopolies which currently control broadband are protected from private competition by regulation (control of right-of-ways in the case of broadband) and from government competition by "libertarianism"/"free-market" arguments/ideology.
We can also see this in health care, intellectual property, etc, etc.
Someone should coin an evocative term for these entities-outside-either-markets-or-serious-regulation.
(Notice the quotes to distinguish this from real libertarian arguments)
Today, it seems like there is a plague of (fake) "libertarian" arguments for protecting essentially government-sponsored enterprises from ... the government.
IE, the oligopolies which currently control broadband are protected from private competition by regulation (control of right-of-ways in the case of broadband) and from government competition by "libertarianism"/"free-market" arguments/ideology.
We can also see this in health care, intellectual property, etc, etc.
Someone should coin an evocative term for these entities-outside-either-markets-or-serious-regulation.
(Notice the quotes to distinguish this from real libertarian arguments)