AFAIK, no one has died yet because of it.
Britain's national telecom company was rolling out fibre in the 80's before the conservative government decided we'd be better served by private companies.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-l...
I meant to say "capitalism" not the free market.
The socialist broadband was created in those communities because the privately owned broadband was so bad.
But yeah, you're right, there's still a market.
John McDonnell say himself that he is a Marxist. The current Labour manifest is hardcore socialist and many of their plans are exactly how things were in former socialist/communist countries.
It's clueless or disingenuous to claim otherwise.
You say their plans are "hardcore socialist", but most of them have comparable implementation in other western european countries. And socialist or not (socialism isn't a dirty word you know), they have generally been very successful for these countries.
To take one example, a large proportion of the British rail system that is supposedly "privately" run, is in fact run by the state rail companies of other countries (who bid on the contracts). It's kind of crazy that we allow them to profit off our country in this way.
what’s wrong with that?
> by political ideology
but isn’t that how our current system is as well? the political ideology of “free market” and “globalism” etc?
Seriously though, there are efforts like this already in the UK as a non-profit [1], and they are crushing it. You don't need private ownership to bring about innovation. You need a healthy attitude towards trying unconventional methods, and constrained resources doesn't hurt.
[1] https://b4rn.org.uk/ (B4RN is a professionally designed fibre optic broadband network, registered as a non-profit community benefit society, and run by a dedicated local team with the support of landowners and volunteers. We offer 1,000Mbps FTTH broadband to every property in our coverage areas, costing households only £30 per month.)
EDIT: B4RN did a 3 million pound bond offer, and it was oversubscribed by 10%. https://www.triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk/invest/broadband-for-t...
Are we talking about UK or southern Europe, for example Romania with gigabit fiber at $20/mo for like the past 5 years ?
It seems instead that you are too stingy with your arguments. Why is socialism such a bad policy for these sorts of services? You can't just invoke the Great Leap Forward and expect anyone to agree.