• Bappity
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    1 year ago

    gigabit internet should be free for everyone imo

    • @rockSlayer
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      181 year ago

      It’s super frustrating that my state banned the ability for cities to have municipal internet, it makes organizing to make gigabit Internet a municipal utility much harder

      • Bappity
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        81 year ago

        that is batshit insane what good reason would there be to ban it

        • @rockSlayer
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          131 year ago

          Because telecom companies secured their monopoly after a whiff of community organizing

    • Yeah, why TF is the internet so shitty in US? I get 500 Mbps down/10 Mbps up for $80/month. It’s disgusting. I’d rather have 100 Mbps symmetric. Or better yet, 500 Mbps symmetric. My parents pay around $20/month for that, and they live in rural India. Even they got fiber, but I have to deal with fucking coax cables. The only local provider with fiber and symmetric speeds doesn’t operate in my side of the town. Why does everything in US have to be designed to fuck the end consumer? It’s really frustrating.

    • kase
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      21 year ago

      the closest thing we have now in the us afaik is public libraries, but even those aren’t getting much support these days :(

      • Bappity
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        21 year ago

        must be even more annoying with that stuff about book banning in some states!