Yeah, ISP’s were given a considerable amount of money to improve internet infrastructure 30 years ago and they did not. Classify them as a utility. Heck, we should nationalize the utilities anyway.
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Yeah, ISP’s were given a considerable amount of money to improve internet infrastructure 30 years ago and they did not. Classify them as a utility. Heck, we should nationalize the utilities anyway.
A national regulatory body could be good but I’d rather see them under local control personally.
In principle, yes. But with politicians eager to strip local control to mean “what the state wants”, I’d rather see the federal supersede it