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Originally Posted by Ele
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How do you think our cable/fiber infrastructure was built? The kindness of ATT/Comcast/Verizon's hearts because they wanted to provide a good product for a competitive price?
No, they all received (and still receive) massive tax breaks and kick backs for promised capabilities and roll out without going through with most of it and did not return any of the tax payer money they took.
Now that it is in place and thanks to state and local municipality deals (i.e. monopolies), the cable/internet companies can prevent other companies from using the tax payer funded lines to offer competing services.
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I think I just pointed that out. The government is involved already and it's SHIT. Why would we want them to take anymore control?