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Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist

posted by martyb on Monday December 04 2017, @08:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-shafted dept.

canopic jug writes:

For decades, people in the US have been given a song and dance by the telecoms about how tax cuts, surcharges, and a long list of other expenses are necessary for telecoms to "invest" in infrastructure. The concessions are granted again and again, but the investments are never actually made. In all, US taxpayers have paid $400 Billion in taxes and Internet surcharges for fiber optic upgrades that never happened.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:15AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:15AM (#605417) Journal

    A warlord and his men constitute an organization that "can throw you into a cage (or worse) for not buying its services."

    Yes, but it's a private entity.

    And I'm afraid the only society were the violence or threat of violence is kept to minimum is a society where all the people have been subjected to violence only once - as in 'lobotomized at birth'.
    In any other conditions, the poster just tries to sell an utopia no different than 'pure communism' or 'religious bliss' (as in 'generalized Buddhist Nirvana') - not gonna happen no matter how s/he peddles it.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:49AM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:49AM (#605430) Homepage Journal

    In any other conditions, the poster just tries to sell an utopia no different than 'pure communism' or 'religious bliss' (as in 'generalized Buddhist Nirvana') - not gonna happen no matter how s/he peddles it.

    What this naive poster is really advocating is Anarcho-capitalism [wikipedia.org].

    Which is right up there with communism in its naivete about human nature. They're lovely ideas that can't be implemented as long as humans are involved.

    It is amusing that these folks are so strident about it. I look forward to seeing how things work out in French Polynesia [seasteading.org]. I wish those folks all the luck in the world, but I won't hold my breath.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:48AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:48AM (#605460) Journal

      Feeling of (my) guts: gift economy [wikipedia.org] has better chances to happen in real world than communism/anarcho-capitalism.

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