Good write up.
"More than 3 million people currently live in communities with a publicly owned communications network."
1% of the US population…
;(
I’d love to finally just flip off Comcast and go local.
There’s a good local company with DSL, but the problem is, there is about 3 miles of cable between me and their nearest hub, which means I would get about 1 to 3 mbps.
Google Fiber has been getting great reviews. I would love for my city to just host it’s own network, and keep it up to date like they do with roads and such. It would create a huge amount of jobs, and save constituents tons of money. My internet now costs me a small fortune. I would rather that bill go down a bit, and the money to go towards my city instead of an oligopoly.
Taxes would go up though. You’d pay one way or another.
Welcome to representative democracy.
The elected representatives do not and cannot possibly know about all the things they have to make decisions about. They instead just have to listen to a combination of advisors, the public and money to try and reach some decision.
Unfortunately, it recently seems that the latter of those categories speaks the loudest.
I wish New York would allow more competition for service. How convenient for Optimum to put its finger in my connection’s butt when I’m trying to play Left 4 Dead 2 online. Shit is bullshit.
Optimum pisses me off sometimes. Excellent customer service though
Unless the service is giving me usable internet, everything they have sucks.
I thought you weren’t poor, why don’t you have FIOS?
Comcast/Optimum Online/Time Warner are trash.
This whole thread reminds me of this:
Spending hours within the same mile because retards in suits want to play politics, now they want to play the same game with the digital roads.
Apparently the head of the FCC has rethought his position after the backlash he got from the decision…
No matter how much I make I can’t name Verizon build a fiber network here. They stopped building them two years ago anyway. NY is really weird with its online providers.
A list of politicians who have accepted money from cable interests, to allow for this fucking failure to go on.
Fucking disgusting.
Nick Rahall. $0.
What a guy. Lobbying against net neutrality pro bono. You don’t see such selflessness these days.
Yeah that was a bit of surprise.
Looks like he’ll be here:
I doubt they’ll talk about this issue though.
Don’t forget Political Action Committees, now that’s millions donated and distributed in a not-so transparent manner.
He’s probably head of the “The Internet is a Series of Tubes” committee too.
Internet really needs to be made into a public service, get companies out of this shit.
I’m stunned that broadband services has still not been made a public service. It’s too vital to the U.S.'s GDP not to be so.
^ It’s too much of a liability. The entire Internet cannot be monitored because it is a global network. There is also the consideration of censoring it, which it would have to be if it’s to a public utility.
To think otherwise would be to ignore the fact that half our politicians and business owners here in the US are fundamentalists douchbags who can’t stomach the thought of someone seeing a non-spousal nipple.
It will not happen any time soon, and if it does, it will not be The Internet.
:tdown:
*Balkanize.
It is completely impossible to censor as decentralized and redundant as the Web at that sort of scale without sectioning the whole mess first(LOL they can try, wouldn’t happen without serious repercussions), otherwise it wouldn’t even work, or it would barely do so.
Besides, it would NOT be a repeat of China’s 2nd Great Wall; unlike their headcount, ours is a bit more… able to stop that sort of bullshit when properly provoked, unlike over there where to oppose the government is futile and a death wish.