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[Thread drift] The ISP cartel sucks
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 11:20 am
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


gewg_ wrote:
||sucky, anti-competitive ISPs

dhm wrote:
|[...]AT&T[...]

'Nuff said.

...then there's Free Municipal Wi-Fi
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of  http://www.wired.com/images/multimedia/magazine/1603/1603_atlas.pdf
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of  http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/11/muni_wifi

which invariably gets screwed any time they let a corporation into the inner circle.
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of  http://www.americancity.org/magazine/article/the-digital-divide

Whenever Independent Free Municipal Wi-Fiit looks like it might get a toehold,
the Internet Access Cartel has an aneurysm and rabidly moves to quell that hope.
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of  http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/1521218#27688301

I always expect the Neo-Cons to be right there, ready to assist in anti-competivism
(and to get their palms greased), but what really torques me off
is when politicians who are ostensibly left of center aid the cartel in that move.
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of  http://bluenc.com/nc-democrats-push-anti-municipal-broadband-legislation-threatening-derail-federal-stimulus-money

Neo-Liberalism sucks just as bad
--and it's especially difficult to tell Blues from Reds in that state anyway.
...and image they euthanize Greens at birth there these days.
Is it any wonder I couldn't get out of the Bible Belt fast enough?




Written in response to:
re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (dhm: Friday, February 12, 2010 at 3:48 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Vicki Macina: Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 8:07 pm)
*re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (gewg_: Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 10:35 pm)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Ed: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 5:41 am)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Vicki Macina: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 9:01 am)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 10:06 am)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Vicki Macina: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 10:17 am)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 11:56 am)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Vicki Macina: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 12:12 pm)
*re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 2:26 pm)
-re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (dhm: Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 3:48 am)
*[Thread drift] The ISP cartel sucks (gewg_: Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 11:20 am)
*[Thread drift] The ISP cartel getting competition (gewg_: Sun, Feb 14, 2010, 6:05 pm)
*ISPs' service doesn't *have* to suck (was: Protocol 1 error 59...) (gewg_: Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 4:30 pm)
*re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (Vicki Macina: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 10:20 am)
*re: Protocol 1 error 59 failed a networking error (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 9:49 am)
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