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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago

If the federal government is regulating them can we admit they're a fucking utility already and stop allowing them to gouge prices when they have more money than they could feasibly spend?

Can you imagine if we said "by 2035 every American household in our electric grid will also be connected to the internet at a speed of 1gbps"?

[-] porksoda@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can imagine it.

I can imagine the next jerk off administration rescinding that goal in the name of private enterprise or whatever bullshit excuse they choose.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

We did that in the 90s. We gave ISPs billions to deploy fiber everywhere. It was mostly squandered and 25 years later most Americans still don’t have fiber access.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, we didn't. It wasn't a utility. Utilities are more regulated by the govt. Thats a big part of why it failed and why electricity succeeded with the same effort in the fucking 1800s.

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