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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by specialist on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:37PM (#16524153)
Sorry, I’m losing the narrative:

Was the Far Left for or against Google Fiber?

More residential broadband (last mile) competition would have saved online advertising?

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by stcredzero on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:15PM (#16524465)
Was the Far Left for or against Google Fiber?

For. However they are against actual Free Speech unmolested by censorship from corporate giants, and they would not have such power on their side, had Google Fiber succeeded.

More residential broadband (last mile) competition would have saved online advertising?

It would have let Tech kill off old media, or at least kill it off sooner, which would have changed the market power of old media's ad money.

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