Internet Corps Push FCC to Keep the Internet Open
Anyone who thinks this is ok
Imagine for a moment, if you will, an internet with no content - no scholarly papers, no youtube, no facebook, no streaming content, no memes, no news, no software downloads, no games, no driver updates, patches and os fixes. Would you pay ATT for access to that internet? The point I am trying to make is that consumers pay ATT for access to content created by other organizations.
It is those organizations who have done their due diligence to make the internet happen. ...
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Double edged sword. Utilities are glorified monopolies, and we have a plenty of problems because of those. However, regulating them as utilities is far better than this bull crap.
The best case scenario would be a politician who doesn't lie and abuse public tax dollars actually holding these companies to their promises they made in the 80's. And since they promised us a fiber network and built copper instead, and since they use tax dollars to do it... their crappy networks ought to be public property. The government ought to seize their networks and open them up as a public resource and then let anyone offer comp...
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That really is the root of it all. Wheeler trying to help his buddies out...now that's the icing on the cake.
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