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Nimble_Idea

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Wed Nov 25, 2020, 11:39 PM Nov 2020

Why 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 OP
The Feds ban governments from doing so dsc Nov 2020 #1
Don't the Blue (g00d guys) run the fed now? Nimble_Idea Nov 2020 #2
they will but this is one of those independent commissions so it will take time dsc Nov 2020 #3
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