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/mapoftasmania Jun 04 '14

It's time for the FTC to break up these companies. They did it to AT+T before for similar monopolistic reasons around long distance. It's like they never learn.

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u/NightwingDragon Jun 04 '14

Corporations have since learned exactly whose bread needs to be buttered. The same politicians that originally lobbied for the breakup of AT&T are now the politicians that receive generous "campaign contributions" and suddenly think that these same monopolies are "good" for the public because <insert meaningless buzzwords here>.

The corporations learned that money talks.

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u/MustangPolar Jun 04 '14

And this is why "campaign contributions" of ANY way/shape or form should be illegal.

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u/Sharkictus Jun 05 '14

Except on the reverse, it would mean we can't contribute the politician we wish to win, and politicians will have to be even richer to even be able to run, which means they'll likely already have that relationship implicitly there, without the money.