Internet ist Infrastrukturpolitik

Yochai Benkler argumentiert bei Talking Points Memo, dass Breitband-Internet-Infrastruktur vom Staat finanziert werden sollte, vergleichbar mit Strassen und Autobahnen: Two (Radical?) Thoughts on Infrastructure.

The fundamental mistake is to take as given that communications infrastructure must be produced, from the ditch digging up, by private firms. No one imagines that we will privatize highway and bridge construction in order to update them. They are shared core infrastructure, that is run as a commons, and are maintained at public expense by private companies that employ workers, foremen, and managers, and whose employment fuels the economy. Why can’t communications infrastructure be the same?

In die gleiche Richtung hab ich u.a. hier argumentiert.