Hat tip to ole hippy dude:
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My original post:
I am watching and might start live blogging Ajit Pai sell out democracy to his paymasters. His main premise is that the plan for Clinton and the Telecoms in the 90s should be our current model. One aspect he is failing to mention is the $400 Billion dollars in the 90s that the telecoms pocketed without ever producing a next level infrastructure.
Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist
nationaleconomicseditorial.com/…
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number.
You were also charged about nine times to wire the schools and libraries via state and federal plans designed to help the phone and cable companies.
And if that doesn’t bother you, by year-end of 2010, and based on the commitments made by the phone companies in their press statements, filings on the state and federal level, and the state-based ‘alternative regulation’ plans that were put in place to charge you for broadband upgrades of the telephone company wire in your home, business, as well as the schools and libraries — America, should have been the world’s first fully fibered, leading edge broadband nation.
In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).
Pai is peddling the same bullshit that allowed telecoms to pocket hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars and never produce.
Pai is now using “down home folks” approach to his mega corporation biddings.
Everyone JUST HAD TO LEAVE.
A guy came up while Pai was peddling lies and said “On the advise of security everyone must leave the room. Drop everything where it is and leave the room.”
We are back.
Pai is lecturing people about practicing what you preach. Pai is saying online marketing is anti-competitive and content providers cannot choose their content.
Pai is stating private app platforms = infrastructure backbone of the internet.
He is falsely equating broadband providers with content producers and corporations that have App market places.
He is asking us to return to the framework that allowed telecoms to pocket $400 billion without doing anything.
He is now naming out loud the people who betrayed democracy. We should all get these names down for history and being on the wrong side of it.
We just did it.
We just ended the internet as we know it.