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Or just remove subsidies and enforce anti-trust laws to make sure there is real competition.
Go live in Texas and see how that has worked out with their power grid.
ISPs: "You can't tell us how to spend money ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure!" Also ISPs: "Ooh! Hey! Can we have some of that money in the jar labeled 'federal money for ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure' ?" How about this. Take it all back. Public utilities with equal access and reliability for all. I’m not even going to try and address the other top level comment cryin…
Competition is what we need, look at cities where Google fiber is available, internet for everyone is faster and cheaper than anywhere in the country and there are of course no data caps in those cities.
It’s why internet is way better in Kansas City than Silicon Valley. Kansas City has actual competition in their marketplace and common people provably benefit.
As they should - the rules are nonsense. From the article: A US law required the FCC to issue rules "preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin," and gave the FCC some leeway in how to implement them. The resulting FCC rules let consumers file complaints about alleged discrimination and define the elements the FCC would examine when investig…
Kinda ironic that you call this "racism against white" by subtly saying that non economically profitable neighbourhoods are non white. Those proposed changes are not racist, they are simply and blindly anti-poor.
GP is saying that white non-economically-profitable neighbourhoods get no protection from that rule.
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Go live in Texas and see how that has worked out with their power grid.
The power goes out just as often in California and Oregon, but news outlets cover the Texas outages for political reasons.
The two are qualitatively different, it has nothing to do with news coverage.
ISPs: "You can't tell us how to spend money ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure!" Also ISPs: "Ooh! Hey! Can we have some of that money in the jar labeled 'federal money for ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure' ?" How about this. Take it all back. Public utilities with equal access and reliability for all. I’m not even going to try and address the other top level comment cryin…
Racism against white people exists, there’s nothing “reverse” about it. You can discriminate and exclude based on any skin color. Competition is what we need, look at cities where Google fiber is available, internet for everyone is faster and cheaper than anywhere in the country and there are of course no data caps in those cities. It’s why internet is way better in Kansas City than Silicon Valley. Kansas City has ac…
As they should - the rules are nonsense. From the article: A US law required the FCC to issue rules "preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin," and gave the FCC some leeway in how to implement them. The resulting FCC rules let consumers file complaints about alleged discrimination and define the elements the FCC would examine when investig…
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Racism against white people exists, there’s nothing “reverse” about it. You can discriminate and exclude based on any skin color. Competition is what we need, look at cities where Google fiber is available, internet for everyone is faster and cheaper than anywhere in the country and there are of course no data caps in those cities. It’s why internet is way better in Kansas City than Silicon Valley. Kansas City has ac…
Systemic racism does not exist against whites in the US.
As they should - the rules are nonsense. From the article: A US law required the FCC to issue rules "preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin," and gave the FCC some leeway in how to implement them. The resulting FCC rules let consumers file complaints about alleged discrimination and define the elements the FCC would examine when investig…
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Or just remove subsidies and enforce anti-trust laws to make sure there is real competition.
Go live in Texas and see how that has worked out with their power grid.
California has more outages than Texas.
There is a difference between regulation and subsidies.
Texas has much cheaper electricy than California:
https://quickelectricity.com/texas-and-california-energy-sid...
> Texas is the top producer of renewable electricity in the US, followed by California. Both states are rich in renewable sources and actively working to expand their generation capacity.
Edit: Texas is not a free market! It has subsidies & regulations.
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Kinda ironic that you call this "racism against white" by subtly saying that non economically profitable neighbourhoods are non white. Those proposed changes are not racist, they are simply and blindly anti-poor.
GP isn't saying "non economically profitable neighbourhoods are non white." GP is saying that white non-economically-profitable neighbourhoods get no protection from that rule.