Creston wrote on Jun 21, 2012, 16:31:

Flatline wrote on Jun 21, 2012, 14:22:
If we decided that internet was a national resource and that every single person in the country needed to have state of the art internet, we *could* do it in a generation, easily. It'd just take a lot of effort and a lot of money.

There have been plans by the DOT to start putting fiber into every new mile of road/interstate they lay down. Their thinking is that that way, it's not as big an investment for the telcos to hook people up with FTTH if they can connect it at the nearest highway.

Of course, fuckers like AT&T and Warner still bitch that it'll be too expensive, and then they introduce more caps.

The real problem is we let corporations get away with simply charging more for shit, thereby increasing their profits. If they can just increase their profits by upping their profits, why would they ever have an incentive to actually invest and try to grow their market?

We need to get rid of both the GOP and the Democrats, and let somebody else be in charge for awhile.

Creston