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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy can't Blue state governments do what Google did to rein in Telecom monopolies?
They were building out a fiber network to power their own internet that would have sent those fuckers to the dustbin of history.
Then Google (along with NetFlakes, and a few others) cut a deal with the crooks and left all the people holding a bag of d13ks.
People should come together and just make a free fiber optic net and force their hand. I bet even a crowdsourced internet would bring those crooks to the table or they will try everything in their power to stop it.
COMCAST, TimeWarner, VERIZON, ATT and SPECTRUM are all scum.
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Why can't Blue state governments do what Google did to rein in Telecom monopolies? (Original Post)
Nimble_Idea
Nov 2020
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dsc
(53,338 posts)1. The Feds ban governments from doing so
Nimble_Idea
(2,849 posts)2. Don't the Blue (g00d guys) run the fed now?
dsc
(53,338 posts)3. they will but this is one of those independent commissions so it will take time
