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Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 01 2014, @07:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Always-5-Years-Out dept.

Blackmoore writes:

the EFF brings us Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber

We don't have to rely entirely on the FCC to fix the problems with high-speed internet access. Around the country, local communities are taking charge of their own destiny, and supporting community fiber.

Unfortunately, those communities face a number of barriers, from simple bureaucracy to state laws that impede a community's ability to make its own decisions about how to improve its Internet access.

We need to break those barriers. Community fiber, done right, should be a crucial part of the future of the Internet.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Gearloose on Friday August 01 2014, @10:15PM

    by Gearloose (336) on Friday August 01 2014, @10:15PM (#76556)

    No, it really isn't.
    These communities are cooperating out of self-interest, exactly like any rational agent would do in an open market.
    In socialism, cooperation is _enforced_. That model has been thoroughly tried, btw. But feel free to have another go, I don't really give a shit.