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Wtf why not just break the monopoly these companies have?
It's the same effect but better
Because the bigger problem is ownership of the infrastructure. Monopoly or not, one of the companies owns the line
So make it a public utility perhaps considering it's so critical these days
Someone doesn't understand what eminent domain is. Sad.
Even better, those cables were supposed to be replaced by the companies that own it using money from the government. Since they didn't do that, might as well take the cables and money back and make it a public utility.
We paid for them to upgrade that infrastructure to the tune of several billion, and those companies just lined their pockets instead. Fuck ‘em. We practically bought it at this point. That shit is basically ours.
Well there is precedent to that. When the us government allowed At&t to dominate the internet markt and then followed it by a huge court case against them until eventually the CEO of AT&T eventually agreed to the division of the company in smaller regional ares of operations.
So they centralised it and then forced them to divide. If we are basically there already then just let them merge so you can prosecute them
The FCC under Biden has a long term plan to reclassify the internet under Title II, which would allow much stricter and wider ranging regulations.
They are probably trying to get that pushed through first.
More work maybe?