I live near a state capital and access to high speed internet is a major problem for everyone, residential and business alike. Get 2 miles out and it’s all satellites or slow wireless internet. Shocks me that politicians don’t care about the business impact.
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I think the post office should run fiber to every office and become a "backbone" provider for local markets.
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In the big New Yorker profile of Zuckerberg there's this in-passing line from a former FTC commissioner that "in the United States, you're allowed to be a monopoly" as long as you didn't get or stay there by illegal means.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy/amp?__twitter_impression=true … -
From student loans to broadband to food choices, the implications of that statement are staggering, and no one in Washington wants to touch it with a 10 ft. pole. It's a harsh illumination of where we are as a country right now
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Totally mind boggling. It's partly a perception issue. Plenty of people in well-connected areas don't know that others have inadequate, unreliable, unaffordable, or no internet access. Worse, some argue that we've erased the digital divide because "everyone has smartphones now."
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Clinton had a proposal to address this, along the lines of the New Deal rural electrification project, iirc.
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Hillary Clinton tried to make it an issue and she was accused of putting down rural voters and areas. So, yeah, it's such a big mystery why this hasn't worked as a campaign issue!
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And yet half the democrats in the country are running on it. Just not the national party
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