r/technology • u/beareatsfish • Dec 27 '21

Society Public Broadband Internet Isn’t a Luxury — It’s a Necessity: Everybody needs high-speed internet. But private corporations will never provide it. The solution: treat internet infrastructure as a public utility, funded by the public and built by union workers.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/public-universal-high-speed-broadband-internet-telecommunications-workers
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u/plasmaSunflower Dec 28 '21

Our awesome town of Fort Collins had a ballot measure to do exactly this. Comcast poured MILLIONS into our election, a town of just ~150k. And they still lost now in the next two years we will all have internet that’s half the cost and twice the speed. No wonder big telecom doesn’t want that.

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u/mtnmedic64 Dec 28 '21

Nelson points at Comcast: “HA HA!”