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Netflix was the cheapskate buying transit from other shitty providers and then acting like they had nothing to with the congestion issues that arose between their ISP and the ISP(s) of their customers.

Bullshit!

It's also quite telling that Comcast refused to install the content caches that Netflix and others offered for free that would have drastically reduced Comcast's peering traffic.

How do 'investors' get fired? Were they morons who got no control for their investment?

Thank you. That question has also been rattling around in my head.

The best I could do was to stumble upon this which states that it appears they gave the money back to the investors, essentially just kicking them out. Would make sense since it does appear that they were just causing the company to hemorrhage money.

There is no 5G standard--it's just a marketing term, and it can mean whatever AT&T wants it to mean.

https://backchannel.com/the-next-generation-of-wireless-5g-is-all-hype-1790239b8ca8

Here's a shortcut to the original blog post (linked in the article).

How the Web Became Unreadable
https://backchannel.com/how-th...

Even then, what the FBI is asking my still be illegal. https://backchannel.com/the-la...