• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    None of this would be a problem if the government didn’t sell us out for what we already paid for and allowed these vultures into the system. It should have be national from the start. It costs them about nothing to have data run through those lines. All those caps exist purely to garner profit.

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      14 hours ago

      Mostly correct take IMO. I don’t blame ISPs for trying. I blame government (and not necessarily just federal) regulations/regulators for allowing it.

      I grew up in NY. We paid a boatload in taxes to make fiber happen everywhere. IT. NEVER. HAPPENED.

      NY is strongly Democrat. Acting like Republicans are solely the problem is asinine, and nothing stops states from enacting their own laws within the state. If California and NY made it happen. Guess what would basically happen throughout the whole country?

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah point to me where I said this was the fault of the Rubes? Because I didn’t say that. This was a joint captilistic operation to severe untold amounts of wealth from the working class. You paid all them taxes and nothing happened because the ISPs decides to pocket the public funds instead of doing anything and the government let them.

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          13 hours ago

          Yeah point to me where I said this was the fault of the Rubes? Because I didn’t say that.

          I didn’t say you did… But the original article DOES try to paint it all on the Republicans. You know…

          FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

          I was taking your point and adapting it specifically to my thoughts on the original article.