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Why You Don't Have a Broadband Connection
blandthrax writes "I ran across this article on The New Republic. The long and short of it indicates that the reason why almost 90% of Americans don't have a broadband connection is because current broadband providers are preventing other ISP's from entering the fray. The result: higher prices for broadband connections and a general lack of innovation. An interesting read full of good details. And, as usual, we learn that countries such as Japan and Korea are far ahead of the US in terms of innovation and technological saturation."
New Republic is an old school Liberal mag.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Umm, no. There's tons of different reasons Americans generally don't have broadband, and probably top of that list is they don't want it.
Is uncompetative behavior a problem? Sure, but if you suddenly "fix it" America isn't going to buy up cable modems.
Why is it that people always take the opportunity in their story writeups to badmouth the United States at every turn?
What the fuck is up with that? If you're so sick of the perceived lack of technology here, move to Korea or Japan, you fucking whiner.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
We did until this happened.
This will get modded down as a troll or flamebait, but if you look at the last 10 years the government has been pretty much defending fair competition(I am speaking in a general attitude here). Then right after the election, large corporation started acting in more overtly anti-competitive manner.
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