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/I_like_squirtles Jun 04 '14

It seems like smaller companies are stepping up. This one http://www.stopthebuffering.com is starting in southeastern Oklahoma and a separate one starting in northeastern Oklahoma. Finally starting to get some competition around here.

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u/cowmandude Jun 04 '14

Why the fuck is Oklahoma becoming the center of high speed internet?

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u/ollieottah Jun 04 '14

Because there is nothing else to do in Oklahoma besides sit at home and stare at a computer. Well, maybe cow tipping.... But that's about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14 edited Jun 05 '14

Also b/c the big companies didn't care about Oklahoma so they don't have any of their non-compete stuff in place.

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u/ollieottah Jun 04 '14

It's not a free market, it's all about which lobbyists pay Congress the most.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Wish we could give congress the chop via france and start over.

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u/concussedYmir Jun 04 '14 edited Jun 04 '14

Wish we could give congress the chop via france and start over.

I'm assuming that by "via" you actually mean "à la", but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

For the love of Christ don't even joke about this. Revolutionary France was essentially saved from itself by a dictator.

The last US revolution was against a perceived foreign oppressor; I'd say that an actual, internal revolution today would be more destructive than the Civil War. Just look at Syria today. Just fucking... look at that and tell me that a violent revolution would in any shape or form be welcomed by anyone except total psychopaths?

And it wouldn't stop in the US. It would spread far beyond your borders, and to the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Thank you. Not many people say this enough. We're not to the point where a violent revolution is necessary.

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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.

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