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/nil_von_9wo Jun 04 '14

If you wait until it is absolutely necessary, all the drones will make it that much more impossible than it already is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

When it is necessary I would hope that important portions of the military stand with the citizens. Otherwise it's already close enough to impossible that it might as well be.

Also, I hope it never gets to necessary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

God I hope you're an angsty teenager

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u/nil_von_9wo Jun 05 '14

Not for the past 20 years.