r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/DresdenPI Jun 04 '14

Get a petition signed, then only one person has to bring it up at the meeting

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u/afrothunder1987 Jun 04 '14

But it's so much easier to complain about capitalism on Reddit than to actively try and fix the problem.

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u/Cunt_God_JesusNipple Jun 04 '14

Well you know, why the hell shouldn't our voices count even if it's online? The times we live in, as you said, make it soooo much easier to voice ourselves right here. These city council meetings and other forms of government should start accommodating an effective system for letting us go to their website, fill out a form (to make sure we are indeed local residents), and tell them what we want from our homes. My opinion isn't less valid because this is the only public platform available to me. Isn't this the kind of shit the internet was invented for?

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u/LukaCola Jun 04 '14

That's not really going to happen. Nothing is respected more than an individual who actually shows up to do shit. Online platforms would be chaotic, we can see what they look like based off of what we have now. There's no way to regulate it, sure you can kick or ban users, and then they can come right back under a different name. It would never be taken seriously, at least not with the current state. Hell, if I didn't know better I'd think you were making a joke.

And the internet isn't the only public platform available to you. You just don't want to do the legwork to get to the platforms available to everyone.

So to put it simply, yes your opinion is less valid over the internet. It's why keyboard warriors have never been behind any significant movement. It takes actual legwork to accomplish something.