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Originally Posted by ronasch
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Lol, really u people don't see how government involvement operate. Here's how it goes down Shitty politician A meets with shitty Lobbyist B, who's being paid by shitty company C. Shitty Lobbyist B promises kickbacks to shitty politician A and Shitty conpany C gets huge overpriced government contract and u the shitty voter D gets insane tax hike, and shitty Internet service. Yes we've been doin this for decades in other industries. And that's why we're in SHIT
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How do you think our cable/fiber infrastructure was built? The kindness of ATT/Comcast/Verizon's hearts because they wanted to provide a good product for a competitive price?
No, they all received (and still receive) massive tax breaks and kick backs for promised capabilities and roll out without going through with most of it and did not return any of the tax payer money they took.
Now that it is in place and thanks to state and local municipality deals (i.e. monopolies), the cable/internet companies can prevent other companies from using the tax payer funded lines to offer competing services.