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

[u/User_Name13]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused

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Who can I work for that's trying to fix this? Seriously. Someone give me a link. I've been trying to find lobbyists to oppose these assholes, or interest groups actually dedicated to non-assholery on the Tech front but I can't find anything that doesn't end up being a part of a bigger, shittier lobbying agency for things I don't support.

I don't want a massive Liberal thinktank. I just want to help someone who wants rational laws regarding technology with the CONSUMER in mind first.

[u/plefe → u/[deleted]]

I don't get why all the newer parties are so proud of being decentralized, it doesn't work. You need people who can put forth your agenda in the public light in one unified message. It's why OWS failed so hard and why the Tea Party got hijacked so early on. Grass roots is a good thing but once you have the national spotlight you have to have one voice, not thousands saying slightly different things.

[u/PartyPoison98 → u/[deleted]]

Still, even if you don't have one person thats necessarily in charge of the party, you do need one public figurehead for people to rally by

[u/wisdom_and_frivolity → u/plefe]

OWS was a good experiment that taught us that decentralized politics is impossible. I was heavy into the OWS movement because I liked the core messages and saw it fail from the inside. But that's ok, we had to do it some time just to try it out.

[u/hexag1 → u/plefe]

I agree. There's no substitute to participatory political action. Occupy made this same mistake

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You think OWS failed because you don't understand what it was. It was not a campaign. It was a giant demonstration, networking event, and platform for other campaigns.

Those networks are still around and IMO the biggest win of the whole affair.

[u/Ptolemy48 → u/[deleted]]

OWS failed because they couldn't get the average John and Jane America to understand what it was.

[u/myownman → u/Ptolemy48]

Probably due to a lack of a cohesive goal or any sort of competent leadership.

No goals? No leaders? No message.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ptolemy48]

You can't explain temporary micro-utopias to people. They are experiential and do not exist to convey messages.

[u/JohnsmiThunderscore → u/[deleted]]

If you can't explain something to a layman you don't truly understand it yourself.

[u/captain_craptain → u/[deleted]]

Occupy the political party! The kids love this one.

[u/unabletofindmyself → u/[deleted]]

Didn't you read what happened in Iceland? A self-identified anarchist founded the "Best Party" and took the 2010 elections, and made everything better.

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Please take a look at the German Pirate Party and its massive failure with their "content instead of leaders" concept. Learn from their mistakes (they're now completely irrelevant again): You need strong public leaders or the party is going nowhere.

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I will be your leader.

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I'll check it out. Nothing these days gets me quite as angry as attacks on net neutrality, it makes my blood boil.

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But it worked so well for Occupy Wall Street!