PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to TechnologyEnglish · 18 hours agoBig loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband lawarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·17 hours agoI personally don’t care for the government fixing prices but at the same time I can’t really feel bad for ISPs.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·17 hours agoWorth noting that they wouldn’t exist at all without eminent domain to run the cables. They’re inherently public infrastructure no matter how they present themselves.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoHonestly the government should just rent the back end infrastructure.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 hours agoI’m definitely on team “eminent domain the cables back”. None of them have used the privilege for the benefit of the public.
I personally don’t care for the government fixing prices but at the same time I can’t really feel bad for ISPs.
Worth noting that they wouldn’t exist at all without eminent domain to run the cables.
They’re inherently public infrastructure no matter how they present themselves.
Honestly the government should just rent the back end infrastructure.
I’m definitely on team “eminent domain the cables back”. None of them have used the privilege for the benefit of the public.