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"it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences.”
Defending the consumer's alleged preference for slow internet? Sounds more like technological DEI to me!
I hate gigabit internet. It's fast and gets everywhere.
I hate gigabit internet. It's fast and gets ~~everywhere~~ to some densely populated areas.
Falls very in line with the "if trump [et.al] were actively trying to disrupt the stability of the US, what would they do differently?"
You know who really likes us having slower, less capable tech? Any possible adversary.
US continuing this weird obsession with moving back to the 1950s.
Let me say it louder for the people in the back of the room:
TRUMP IS KILLING THE COUNTRY BECAUSE WE MADE HIM KILL EPSTEIN TO KEEP EVERYTHING FROM COMING OUT.
It’s a narcissistic revenge lash-out. Why is every hire literally (like actually literally, not figuratively literally, not hyperbole literally, but actually literally) the worst possible person? Why is every move the most destructive and destabilizing? Why is everything a grift to con the most rube of rubes?
He can’t just bomb the place, he knows he’d be stopped; so he’s just slowly boiling the pot. He has no good intentions, he’s out for blood and he’s flexing on all of us.
There are isolated farming villages in Korea with faster Internet speeds than many places in the US. That gap is about to widen.
Next up: Automobiles limited to 10 km/h to not be unfair towards horse-drawn vehicles.
Can the isps give back the billions in tax payer dollars they got for this then?
Not the onion?
if it's an article about the government doing something shitty for the non-billionaire consumer with a completely ridiculous bullshit justification, then it's probably true
elon musk probably started whining that widespread 1GB fiber infrastructure would hurt his starlink money
Probably not super far from at least a partial truth with that.
My Starlink can get up to 350mbps on a good day. But I imagine in more congested areas it’ll be lower. I’m sure it’s unrelated.
Terrestrial wired internet with speed capacity at minimum 1Gbps should be the requirement for federal funding.
Didn't they already do this? I remember being shocked in the 2010s to learn they'd redefined broadband to allow them to lay coax and call it broadband.
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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