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Ars Technica is reporting on San Francisco's initial steps to create a citywide fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) open-access network where ISPs compete for customers.
According to Ars Technica:
San Francisco is trying to find network providers to build a city-wide, gigabit fiber Internet service with mandated net neutrality and consumer privacy protections. It would be an open-access network, allowing multiple ISPs to offer service over the same lines and compete for customers.
The city yesterday issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to find companies that are qualified "to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a ubiquitous broadband FTTP [fiber-to-the-premises] network that permits retail service providers to lease capacity on the network." The project would also involve a free Wi-Fi service for city parks, city buildings, major thoroughfares, and visitor areas. Low-income residents would qualify for subsidies that make home Internet service more affordable.
ISPs offering service over the network would not be allowed to block or throttle lawful Internet traffic or engage in paid prioritization. ISPs would also need customers' opt-in consent "prior to collecting, using, disclosing, or permitting access to customer personal information or information about a customer's use of the network."
Could this be the first major US metropolitan area to create a real free market in broadband Internet? Do any Soylentils have similar municipal networks?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @04:30PM (27 children)
Darlin, you're not saying anything I don't already know. I'm a capitalist. Capitalists believe in competition. Anything that harms or prevents competition over the long term is not my friend.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 05 2018, @08:42PM (13 children)
So you're here and now disavowing a good 80% or 90% of your previously-expressed social policies? :) Nope, didn't think so. You wouldn't know a free market if it bit you in your foul feathery ass.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @09:11PM (12 children)
You're really reaching there. Social policies have little to nothing to do with policy regarding monopolies and competition.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @09:17PM (4 children)
Incorrect, you just lack the ability to go beyond 1 layer deep on any given topic.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @09:33PM (3 children)
You mean the ability through rhetorical gymnastics to say that something is what it is not? Yes, I lack that. Proudly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @09:47PM (2 children)
Redefinition, another favorite tactic of your ilk.
What next? I know you are but what am I?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @10:13PM (1 child)
I was going to go with "I'm rubber, you're glue..." but I do take requests.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:41PM
I would like to see your rendition of "The TIde Pod Challenge!"
I will forever be in your debt if you do...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 05 2018, @10:44PM (6 children)
On the contrary, Uzzard, your social policy is the level below these and from which these spring.
You are suffering from (or, more accurately, making the rest of us suffer from...) a priority-inversion bug. Commerce is not our highest purpose. We, the human race, do not exist simply for monetary or mercantile reasons. When you get this inversion properly taken care of, your fiscal policy will change on its own.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @10:58PM (5 children)
You really can't handle it when we agree on something, can you? Totally fucks up your world view and makes your mind race to figure out how that can't possibly be right.
Also, if you think material wealth is even close to my highest priority, you haven't listened to a word I've said the entire time you've been here. Here, I'll give you the Readers' Digest version: wealth < happiness < life < liberty.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:32AM (4 children)
Again, you have that all out of order. "Happiness" shouldn't be in that list, because the other three things are your (perceived...) ranking of what *makes* you happy.
Which also, in the order you posted them, has the odd consequence that being dead and liberated (?) makes you happier than being alive and, er, not-liberated? Explain that one, please? You don't strike me as someone who puts any stock in the idea of your existence continuing after the death of your physical shell.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @10:52AM (3 children)
No, they're not. Important is not the same as enjoyable.
As for the latter, you're not reading well or something. Google up Patrick Henry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:35PM (2 children)
You're boring, same old crappy arguments, same old blindspots.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:54PM (1 child)
Weaksauce. Troll harder.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:26PM
I don't think AC was trolling, just stating the facts. Really, your entire worldview comes down to "Got mine, fuck you," with some, as you put it, "weaksauce" attempts to bolster it through saying you "earned" everything you have. Sure ya did, buddy. You popped out of the womb with a full time job and all.
God, you are tiresome and boring. Get some new arguments, will you? It's like watching a dog on a short chain running circles around the post and yapping to itself...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @09:05PM (2 children)
Holy crap, way to be clueless. Capitalists don't believe in competition, that is just lip service that is supposed to hand wave away all the problems. "Competition drives efficiency! Better for everyone!!"
In general the theory holds, but it falls apart when humans get involved. Not to mention there are times when competition might hurt both parties, imagine two small grocery shops that compete and cause each other so much financial drain that one closes and the other takes a long time to recover or drastically increases prices to get back in the black.
Or how about the Walmarts of the world? Is 10-20% price discounts worth losing your local economy? What about the local people who now earn poverty wages and increase the drain on welfare services?
You are an arrogant fool, you skipped schooling and went straight to the trades, and your mild success makes you think you're the expert on everything. It is sad yet infuriating since it is people like you dragging this country to hell trying to fight commies/liberals/socialists/(lol)fascists. You can't even keep your terms straight.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)
Exactly what I'd expect a product of our higher education system to parrot. People are actually coming of "institutions of learning" profoundly stupider than they went in nowadays. Do at least try and have a thought that violates your amalgamation of socialist/communist/fascist brainwashing once in a while. It'll only hurt for a moment, I promise.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @09:32PM
Projection 101 with Professor Buzzard.
"Hey, where's the class?"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:19AM (4 children)
Suuuree thing. Repeat it to reinforce your self-conditioning, you have a self-image to protect.
More likely you're: "I love competition but I hate the competitors. Especially when they win. Because them winning means that I'm wrong, and this cannot be, because I'm always right"
(large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @02:21AM (3 children)
Nah, failure is the best teacher. Which makes me wonder why we're letting people who know and understand fuck-all pass in our schools. Nevermind. Forgot for a moment that schools are about indoctrination rather than education nowadays.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @02:31AM (2 children)
I might remind you of this one whenever you show signs of indoctrination instead of learning from your failures.
(large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:03AM (1 child)
I don't need reminding but you're welcome to it. Why do you think I argue so much about things that matter to me? The smartest people I know either fail to provide a convincing argument to the contrary, in which case I'm further assured that I'm correct, or they succeed and I get to be correct instead of just thinking I am.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:19AM
Thanks for the permission.
I realize didn't actually need it (could always rely on it as a consequence to freedom of speech), but being specifically offered is appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @02:33AM (4 children)
And this is why anything you post in that area isn't worth reading. You start with a mindset that a single philosophy is always correct and then go through contortions to make reality fit that philosophy.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:06AM (3 children)
A single philosophy based on individual liberty is always correct. Anything else is just making excuses for your own moral failures.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:12AM (2 children)
Too bad capitalism is orthogonal to individual liberty.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:05AM (1 child)
See, this is why the Tide Pod Challenge doesn't bother me. Anyone stupid enough to eat one absolutely should.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:39PM
Ah yes, those toddlers should be removed from the gene pool!! We should also put cartoon characters back into smoking commercials. Genius!! I mean what business does the government have restricting a businesses advertisements? Of course those sissies have to use men with guns to get their way, I can't stand this oppression anymore!