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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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Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist
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(Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Tuesday December 05 2017, @12:19AM (5 children)
I'm just devastated by your disapproval, Khallow. Once I've had a chance to stop sobbing, I'll write an apology to the Internet.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 05 2017, @03:42PM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @06:53PM (2 children)
When dealing with people suggesting a move into a dystopian post-apocalypse type world then yeah, you'll get a lot of irritation and short tempers. The world evolved out from under the thumb of the warlords that gained power when there was relative anarchy and the strongest group could dominate.
Big Business has successfully implemented a coup on the US government, putting in legislation piece by piece that slowly gave them near total power. We were warned about this, and there are multiple countries with better versions of democracy than the US, but now we have some brain washed leftovers from the Big Biz Propaganda Wars who have taken the "free market" mantra to an insane extreme. This idea of "but we should compromise and extend the olive branch" was something that liberals have been trying to do for a long time. Hard core conservatives have developed the strategy of using this behavior to their advantage by simply being bull headed pigs who force concessions and then bully their way into some more.
I'm done with compromise unless I see value in it. The free market troll that loves to shitpost around here refuses to address the problems with the anarchist model and just says "competition will sort everything out through consumer choice". It is so naive as to be laughable, yet people continually engage the topic since the AC won't log in to a user account. Few people want to see our system completely torn down and rebuilt, there are simply a few big adjustments needed to lose the abusive loopholes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @05:07AM
That's totalitarianism and/or chaos. Anarchy is the state in which there is no ruler lording it over other people.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:43AM
Sure, they have. And I bought Bezos's nose for a billion dollars.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday December 05 2017, @07:02PM
You have such an appropriate sig right now
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"