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We could all pressure our local governments to provide municipal internet. Many cities have already created services that are much faster too.
by 00rion 13y ago
We could all pressure our local governments to provide municipal internet. Many cities have already created services that are much faster too.
- rjbwork 13y agoUnless/until the state or local governments pass laws that make that illegal and grant even stronger de facto monopolies to the cable companies.
- officemonkey 13y agoWe control our government. If they fail to act in our best interest it is our fault.
- kdot 13y agoYou're being very naive, Comcast has more control and access to government then 'we'.
- officemonkey 13y agoCurrently.
- oh_sigh 13y agoFuturely too.
- Florin_Andrei 13y agoOne man, one vote. One fat wallet, one million votes.
- kjs3 13y agoToo late. The DSL & Cable monopolies are lobbying like hell to make municipal broadband illegal, and have succeeded many places.
- Florin_Andrei 13y agoInternet providers need to quit playing these shenanigans all the time. What they do is they build public roads. You wouldn't allow a company to build a public road, and then go: "Safeway trucks get a free pass, cause we have a deal with them; everyone else, $5 per vehicle. Except for you, Best Buy, you pay $25 - except Saturday and Sunday, when you may not pass at all."
- quadyeast 13y ago... Best Buy pays more than anyone else? Hm, this is starting to sound good.
- __david__ 13y agoWell, I do see signs on side streets all the time that say "no trucks over 3 tons". And I've seen parking signs that had incomprehensible terms. I agree with your position, but I think your analogy is tortured.
- Florin_Andrei 13y agoI also see police on the roads, that prevent random lunatics from driving while tripping balls and ramming into my ass at 150 km/h during my morning commute. I think that's also a function of government. Secondly, if you think the "no trucks over 3 tons" signs impinge on your "liberty", then go ahead and drive a 25 ton truck down that road, see what happens. I'm having this discussion about "liberty" versus common sense with my 3rd grade son all the time.
- __david__ 13y agoI certainly never said "no trucks over 3 tons" impinges anyone's liberty. I was implying that "no trucks over 3 tons" is equivalent to saying "no one is allowed to consume more than X amount of bandwidth" on my public pipe, which is exactly how the network providers are going to couch their arguments when trying to strangle Netflix.
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- talmand 13y agoKeep in mind that in some cases the municipals are sued by the companies that can't be bothered to implement quality broadband for trying to implement quality broadband. Makes me wonder if it'll have to get to the point that a municipality says fuck you to both the broadband provider suing them and the county/state courts that allow such nonsense to implement their broadband anyway.