Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Revoke their corporate charter, nationalize their infrastructure, sell it to municipal ISPs.
Nah, just allow communities to build their local infrastructure. Trust me. You don’t need to threaten the status quo, just allow the market to compete.
Every town where local fiber is available, Comcast and Spectrum suddenly have cheaper and more reliable service. It’s magical.
I mean yeah that’s what monopolies do. They eliminate competition by either buying it out or lowering their prices/improving service to drive them out of business so they can then raise prices again. Just cause a small company can come in and make things better while they’re able to be around doesn’t mean we shouldn’t go after these monopolies and cut them down so they can’t have this power.
Municipal broadband is not a small company though. It’s a cooperative owned by residents.
And in many states it’s actually illegal. Which makes no sense.
Probably companies like Comcast making sure there isn’t anything to disrupt their monopolies. Another reason to break them up so they can’t have that much power.
I lived in Charlotte, NC when Google announced GFiber was coming. Instantly AT&T started running as much fiber as possible and Charter(spectrum) was trying to get people locked into cheaper 3 year contracts. Ultimately AT&T got fiber first so we went with them, and it was vastly better. Charter was getting 60% packet loss every night from oversold infrastructure they didn’t care to fix, as before the announcement the only competition was AT&T uverse in some parts of the city.
androogee@midwest.social 5 months ago
Shoot them all into the sun.
mPony@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nuke them from orbit - it’s the only way to be sure
HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So now that’s giant spiders and cable companies?
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Don’t you worry about collateral damages?
Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s the only way to be sure!
Game over, man! Game over!
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 months ago
apparently its less effort/energy to shoot them into deep space.
but either way is good.
dream_weasel@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
I mean yeah, the sun is in one place, space is basically anywhere else. It’s easier to shoot anywhere than to shoot somewhere.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 months ago
hah, no, it really, really isn’t like that at all. shooting straight north or south, for example, is really hard. going in the opposite direction of the earth’s orbit is hard too.
earth is spinning around the sun. going in the direction the earth is trying to escape the sun from is easy.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
They’re a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes, that’s for sure