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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by whoitwas on Monday April 22, 2024 @03:29AM (#40112120)
It's true, we tried. At some point congressmen and senators decided to start handing billions to huge companies based on promises rather than creating public infrastructure. Now we give money to companies who say they will make the infrastructure, they don't, they legally eliminate competition, then consume more public resources when the public sues because they never created the infrastructure.

This is America. Give companies our tax dollars to be legal monopolies and make our lives suck.

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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by virtue3 on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:07AM (#40112283)
It's not like we didn't already give the major major ISPs 200 BILLION DOLLARS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556

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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by whoitwas on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:27AM (#40112402)
Typically, large ISPs create local laws preventing municipal broadband. In some locales they are more successful and create laws giving themselves money or monopoly status. Often, only certain providers are permitted to use public infrastructure because of the laws (corruption).
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