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I posted a message a little while back about municipal broadband in the USA, noting that 'liberal' had become a term of denigration. Well, the hard right is having another go. US Congressman Pete Sessions is putting up a bill that would prevent state or local governments offering broadband services if private companies were already in the market. The news item notes:

Before winning election to Congress, Sessions spent more than 16 years at the Bell Labs in New Jersey, and served as a Southwestern Bell district manager for marketing in Dallas.

No conflict of interest there, then!

...and don't I recall that Bell Co. was a business monopoly that had to be broken up? So there's no danger of that happening again, eh?