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Fuck Ajit Pai.
With a broad sword, preferably.
I vote for the shards of that giant Reese’s mug
Giant Mug - last week tonight with John Oliver
Ashit Pie has such a punchable face.
This is great, but we also need a law that mandates leasing of existing last mile, to bring a competition like we had during the days of DSL.
Ideally the fiber from POP to my house should be owned by my city and leased to whichever ISP I want to do business with.
Or you separate the infra from the provider. So all fiber is put into company A and the service offering is done by companies that buy capacity on the lines.
Regulate the shit out of the infra company and let the service offering co pa iets compete. You will see datacaps disappear and prices drop in no time.
Maybe even nationalize it? It’s a very important part of modern lives an communication. It is of national interest that it works, is affordable, and is efficient. Why would it not be nationalized?
At least you want to prevent roads being dug up by a range of companies installing duplicate infrastructure. Each house only needs 1 fiber (for data) to them… everything can come though that fiber… that also saves resources and allows for easier coordination and less ground works.
I dunno of nationalizing is needed, or if heavily regulating is enough. This is done with water system, high voltage and mid voltage power too… so the model is familiar.
At least separating the medium from the services and offering the medium under a FRAND model means that also the service providers will keep the medium provider honest and the service providers will compete with eachother for the customer. On quality, service, price and whatever they can think of.
And I fully realise the whole US does not nessecarily mean 1 infra owner… maybe split across regions/states is better… that’s for lawmakers to figure out.
This would fix a boatload of issues and break down Verizon/Comcast into service vs infrastructure companies.
It will never happen.
Both companies would put forth a staggering amount of money into lobbying to kill this on top of all the politicians they already “donated” to.
It’s sickening.
I’m going to hold my excitement in check until January of next year. Because if a certain former president gets reelected then any hopes of net neutrality will end for another 4 years.
Net Neutrality will probably be one of our lesser concerns if that happens.
On the contrary as it directly affects any sort of digital escapism
another 4 years
And probably longer than that, if things go the way Trump plans
What makes a man turn neutral? A lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
My gut tells me “maybe”
Don’t call it a comeback, it’s been here for years
Connecting all peers, putting Comcast in fear
Makin the tiers blow off like a typhoon
Now watch how the bandwidth blooms
Transmissions, not expiring
All the competition, it’s inspiring
Mom & pops, online shops
The benefit of equal access rocks
