Re:Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband
by dang on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:13PM
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The problem is that (a) you fired a bunch of hot buttons on a generic ideological theme. I mean what does municipal broadband have to do with critical race theory? That's practically the definition of a generic tangent;
(b) your comment was completely speculative - what specific reason is there to believe that use of municipal broadband might be restricted ideologically? or that alternate ISPs would cease to exist? I don't see any substance here.
(c) flamebait like "one-party state", which is language that has specific historical meaning and is highly inflammatory when adapted to other contexts.
Widening the topic to something vastly broader and divisive, not adding any specific relevant information, plus tossing in flamebait, makes it a generic ideological flamewar comment. It's not going to lead anywhere good, and by the 'expected value of subthread' test, that makes it a bad HN comment.
(b) your comment was completely speculative - what specific reason is there to believe that use of municipal broadband might be restricted ideologically? or that alternate ISPs would cease to exist? I don't see any substance here.
(c) flamebait like "one-party state", which is language that has specific historical meaning and is highly inflammatory when adapted to other contexts.
Widening the topic to something vastly broader and divisive, not adding any specific relevant information, plus tossing in flamebait, makes it a generic ideological flamewar comment. It's not going to lead anywhere good, and by the 'expected value of subthread' test, that makes it a bad HN comment.
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