Where do you live that you have 13 different ISPs? For most people, they have one or two ISPs to choose from. A quick Google search located this report that, at 25Mbps (the current definition of broadband), 30% have no providers, 48% have only one provider, and 19% had 2 providers. Only 3% had 3 or more providers. That means that nearly a third of people in the US don't have broadband and two thirds have only 1 or 2 providers. If you have 13 different ISPs, you're very lucky, but you're also a huge exception to the general rule.
This is the problem with floating definitions of broadband. When you increase that floating definition to 50Mbps, how do those new lower stats serve to prove your point?
What zip code do you live in sir, so we can research your claim of only 1 provider with 25Mbps? I suspect your claim will be false however I will keep an open mind.
You should be fighting against the government sponsored monopolies that you cite (one broadband provider in your entire state).
However, since there's cellular and satellite options for all states, so I am skeptical of your claim of only one provider. They may have the fastest/lowest latency connections but they are hardly the only option.
So again, stop your local municipalities from granting monopoly rights to only one company, which is another way to stifle competition by the entrenched.
Horseshit. Fuck you and your they're all the same bullshit. Only one party is passing legislation that 75% of the electorate is against, with little to no oversight, and in the case of tax law no review period of any kind. Only one party continues their ratfucking crusade and dirty trick campaigns by preventing citizens from voting and gerrymandering urban districts out completely.
Before you yell Bamacare remember that the law was in review for over 9 months, and O did his best to include ideas from all sides.
Oh, and only one party is effectively in league with the Russians. You will never live this down, you dirty fucking commies. Get out of my country.
Besides posting as Anonymous Coward, you claim only one party is passing legislation that 75% of the electorate is against.
However, since 50% of the electorate voted for Trump, and appear to be supporting this move, then your 75% number seems to have been made up out of your (bleep).
NN was and is a government regulatory nightmare that did nothing to actually regulate internet fair use... that has been, for over a decade, managed by the free market. Sure there's been bad actors here and there... and what happens to them? They get called out (ahem Comcast) and customers flee to other internet access options. That's called free market, something that this "Anonymous Coward" doesnt believe in (yet implies the Republicans are commies in league with the Russians)
Oh, and btw, regarding implying the Republicans or Trump (or who knows who) is the "one party effectively in league with the Russians"... over a year of investigation in various forms and still not a single shred of evidence presented. Yet, we do have substantive evidence of collusion by the Hillary campaign of utilizing Russian based firms (aka Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike) to manufacture fake dossiers to be presented as fact of Trump involvement when it was provably FALSE. (buzzfeed fell on that sword)
Not to mention the DNC hack which was probably perpetrated by the Pakistani IT directors hired and protected by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, whom as I recall, was fired from the DNC for evidence of collusion with the Clinton campaign to keep Bernie Sanders from getting the Democrat nomination.
So I think you should clean up your own house before pointing fingers at the others' house. And good luck living in your own private Idaho, which btw supports guns and free speech my friend.
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Where do you live that you have 13 different ISPs? For most people, they have one or two ISPs to choose from. A quick Google search located this report that, at 25Mbps (the current definition of broadband), 30% have no providers, 48% have only one provider, and 19% had 2 providers. Only 3% had 3 or more providers. That means that nearly a third of people in the US don't have broadband and two thirds have only 1 or 2 providers. If you have 13 different ISPs, you're very lucky, but you're also a huge exception to the general rule.
This is the problem with floating definitions of broadband. When you increase that floating definition to 50Mbps, how do those new lower stats serve to prove your point?
What zip code do you live in sir, so we can research your claim of only 1 provider with 25Mbps? I suspect your claim will be false however I will keep an open mind.
You should be fighting against the government sponsored monopolies that you cite (one broadband provider in your entire state).
However, since there's cellular and satellite options for all states, so I am skeptical of your claim of only one provider. They may have the fastest/lowest latency connections but they are hardly the only option.
So again, stop your local municipalities from granting monopoly rights to only one company, which is another way to stifle competition by the entrenched.
Horseshit. Fuck you and your they're all the same bullshit. Only one party is passing legislation that 75% of the electorate is against, with little to no oversight, and in the case of tax law no review period of any kind. Only one party continues their ratfucking crusade and dirty trick campaigns by preventing citizens from voting and gerrymandering urban districts out completely.
Before you yell Bamacare remember that the law was in review for over 9 months, and O did his best to include ideas from all sides.
Oh, and only one party is effectively in league with the Russians. You will never live this down, you dirty fucking commies. Get out of my country.
Besides posting as Anonymous Coward, you claim only one party is passing legislation that 75% of the electorate is against.
However, since 50% of the electorate voted for Trump, and appear to be supporting this move, then your 75% number seems to have been made up out of your (bleep).
NN was and is a government regulatory nightmare that did nothing to actually regulate internet fair use... that has been, for over a decade, managed by the free market. Sure there's been bad actors here and there... and what happens to them? They get called out (ahem Comcast) and customers flee to other internet access options. That's called free market, something that this "Anonymous Coward" doesnt believe in (yet implies the Republicans are commies in league with the Russians)
Oh, and btw, regarding implying the Republicans or Trump (or who knows who) is the "one party effectively in league with the Russians"... over a year of investigation in various forms and still not a single shred of evidence presented. Yet, we do have substantive evidence of collusion by the Hillary campaign of utilizing Russian based firms (aka Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike) to manufacture fake dossiers to be presented as fact of Trump involvement when it was provably FALSE. (buzzfeed fell on that sword)
Not to mention the DNC hack which was probably perpetrated by the Pakistani IT directors hired and protected by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, whom as I recall, was fired from the DNC for evidence of collusion with the Clinton campaign to keep Bernie Sanders from getting the Democrat nomination.
So I think you should clean up your own house before pointing fingers at the others' house. And good luck living in your own private Idaho, which btw supports guns and free speech my friend.