FCC Commish - US Playing 'Russian Roulette' with Broadband

LarryBoy writes "In a speech given at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps lambasted US broadband policy, saying that the US is 'playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet and more traditional media."' Copps also took issue with an op-ed piece ('Broadband Baloney') by fellow commissioner Robert McDowell last week. 'In his speech, Copps didn't mention McDowell by name, but he did claim that broadband in the US is "so poor that every citizen in the country ought to be outraged." Back when then OECD said that we were number four in the world, he said, no one objected to its methodology. Copps also had fighting words for those who blame the US broadband problems on our less-dense population; Canada, Norway, and Sweden are ranked above us, but all are less dense than the US. Besides, this argument implies that broadband is absolutely super within American urban areas. Copps noted, though, that his own broadband connection in Washington, DC was "nothing compared to Seoul."'"

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I'll be damn, there are leaders in the USA ....

[OldHawk777]

I'll be damn, there are a few leaders in the USA Government. There just ain't no politician in the USA with any real leadership qualities. I don't think the corporate-lobbyist on /. can mod-down or call the FCC Commissioner Michael Copps a troll. I suspect the politicians will have him before a committee soon to look like they will do something in committee and do nothing.

We still have screwed up airports and air-traffic control, 30% of USA infrastructure (levies, bridges, dams, tunnels ...) on the verge of catastrophic failure, USA telecommunication ranking 20+ internationally, abysmal public education with high levels of dropouts and failures, great health care for the wealthy and a good Christian attitude of let the poor eat-cake and drop-dead, business that is scam and corporate-welfare driven to avoid innovation and competition in favor of greed, fraud, and TREASON ....

I could continue the list of the results of leadership failure in the USA and say like a politician how damn complex and unsolvable the problems are at public photo-ops, but I would never tell such lies to US Citizens, or whine that it cost to much to feed, educate, and assure good health care for our children, or refuse by collusion a safe infrastructure for them on which to ride to school and allow parents to get to work and home safely. Nor would I keep screaming like a fearful wimp that the terrorist are the boogy-men destroying US, or that unions, taxes, minimum-wage ... are what harm the USA economy (Folks, it should be obvious by now that "CAREER POLITICIANS" are the main cause of all our problems in the USA and are the greatest evil destroying US from within our still "politically, corporately, religiously correct" unsecured borders.

The GOD DAMN MF 10/20/30... (older than Bin Ladin) YEARS OLD PROBLEMS ARE CAUSED BY THE GREEDY LYING POLITICIANS, PLUTOCRATS, CORPORATIST, AND TELEVANGELISTS. We need to end career politicians by voting them out every chance we get. It is our patriotic duty to defend The USA Constitution and our families, friends, and nation by removing from local, state, and federal office every politician at every election without exception. We must end the obvious dangers clearly and repeatedly demonstrated over decades by Oppressive Career Politicians (OCP) and their dynastic/nepotist offspring.

IOW: Save US or Die should be all our concerns, it ain't some (small, few thousands) murderous gang of religious thugs that have any chance of destroying US. Yes, our greatest enemy is home grown and within the borders of the USA today, and all we need to do is stop the career politician demagoguery by voting them out of office always and forever.

Most all USA Politicians are a bunch of theatrical corporatist-cocksuckers, image-focused plutocrat tit-slurppers, televangelist dollar-praising mythologist, dogma-minded delusion-inebriationist ... you know what I mean them politicians can spin more lies into plausibly acceptable truth for trusting USA Citizens, than Satan can concoct fairy-tails to convince fools. Grow up folks abandon the dogma and vote'em all out every election forever.

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