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Originally Posted by ronasch
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basically what your talking about is pooling enough money together to draw an ISP to your area. We need government to be the middle man? I think not. Government is corrupt that's why we're 19 trillion dollars in debt. If an ISP believes its profitable to provide your area service then they will make the investment. If not, oh well MOVE.
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If we can even call that a solution, your solution is not based in reality. We are not starting from square one and have to deal with the issues as they currently exist and moving forward from there.
I do appreciate voting with your wallet/feet, but it is not at all pragmatic or reasonable in many situations. This is not the frontier days where you can just pick up your wagon, burn your house down for the nails, and go West for some free land. Today, much like an individual's vote doesn't statistically matter on election day, neither does you cancelling Internet service from Comcast, boycotting Wal-Mart, gasoline for a day, etc. There is someone else on either side of you that does not care and will continue living their life and fill the spot you left empty (mostly because there are limited options for these types of services).
Additionally, if everyone moved that wanted decent high speed internet, eventually we would all be coalesced into several dense urban metroplexes as they are the most economically viable locations for these ISPs to service due to population density versus coverage area. There is a reason phone bills have a universal access fee (tax) so that phone companies would be required to provide phone service to rural/remote locations even when not economically viable to the company.
You suggest that people draw private ISPs to their towns, but is a town of 1000 people really supposed to throw $1000 each into a pool to entice a brand new ISP to come to town and build out a cable/fiber network that then hooks into a major Internet backbone in the metroplex 100 miles away? No business in their right mind is touching that for $1 million dollars. Much less how each one of those people has $1000 to spend on building out Internet infrastructure to their town. Instead, a number of towns are building out their own networks through the use of municipal bonds and funds and making them utilities where people can purchase Internet service through the municipality (local government doing something good?). In the process of doing this, these towns/municipalities are also being sued/lobbied against by companies like Comcast/ATT/Verizon for daring to compete with them.
Regarding your general complaint about corruption, I don't think anyone here will disagree with you that corruption is legitimized and legalized in our current public
and private sectors and that it is a huge problem that needs to be rooted out of the system. I don't know what being 19 trillion in debt has to do with Net Neutrality though. You keep running on tangents about "government = bad" without addressing or arguing the basic concept Net Neutrality.