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Fuck Ajit Pai.
With a broad sword, preferably.
I vote for the shards of that giant Reese’s mug
Make that sword rusty and covered in piss, and I’m happy.
Giant Mug - last week tonight with John Oliver
Ashit Pie has such a punchable face.
I’m going to hold my excitement in check until January of next year. Because if a certain former president gets reelected then any hopes of net neutrality will end for another 4 years.
Net Neutrality will probably be one of our lesser concerns if that happens.
another 4 years
And probably longer than that, if things go the way Trump plans
This is great, but we also need a law that mandates leasing of existing last mile, to bring a competition like we had during the days of DSL.
Ideally the fiber from POP to my house should be owned by my city and leased to whichever ISP I want to do business with.
Or you separate the infra from the provider. So all fiber is put into company A and the service offering is done by companies that buy capacity on the lines.
Regulate the shit out of the infra company and let the service offering co pa iets compete. You will see datacaps disappear and prices drop in no time.
This is a rational, interesting, and seemingly sustainable model to use for internet infrastructure companies, and unfortunately, that’s why I’m confident it won’t succeed. Comcast et al would lobby their balls off against any legislation of that nature.
Just like the return of net neutrality, abolishing of non-compete clauses in labor contracts, and a long list of other improvement made under Biden.
What I mean to say, don’t be blind to all the hood things happening amidst the shit storm that is the current US political theatre.
This would fix a boatload of issues and break down Verizon/Comcast into service vs infrastructure companies.
It will never happen.
Both companies would put forth a staggering amount of money into lobbying to kill this on top of all the politicians they already “donated” to.
It’s sickening.
Don’t call it a comeback, it’s been here for years
Connecting all peers, putting Comcast in fear
Makin the tiers blow off like a typhoon
Now watch how the bandwidth blooms
Transmissions, not expiring
All the competition, it’s inspiring
Mom & pops, online shops
The benefit of equal access rocks
