Sedgistan wrote:Putting the entire internet under government control doesn't encourage technological advancement. The Minister of Telecommunications in that option is interested in ensuring "neutrality" (hardly encouraging innovation) and providing a free service so private enterprise can't profit out of it. That results in everyone having the same inefficient, mediocre internet with no profit incentive to improve.
Just because it isn't encouraged doesn't mean it wouldn't happen anyways. Also, who is to say that it would be inefficient? It would surely be more effective in the hands of a high SA nation (such as mine). Having no private ISPs wouldn't have much effect on overall SA, and now, with, "free" internet around your nation, it would be much easier for a not-so-well off citizen to pitch their ideas to others, such as a isolated inventor with a great idea, giving it to an invention sponsorship company, thus getting it out there and advancing the nation if it is accepted into society.
I'm not saying that the SA rise would have to be like 50+ points, it can be a low rise, especially counting the lower SAed nations, but the current impact it has seems a tad unrealistic (not saying that this is totally based on realism, but there needs to be some) to me.
It would be interesting to have something implemented, where, say, depending on SA, the bump grows a tad (like, a fraction of a point), but this isn't the place for that, obviously.