My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.
Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".
Including and between the above has been a steady stream of lobbying cash by US telcos - yielding captured regulators, captured legislators and telco-written, anti-consumer laws.
And while the degree of corruption is somewhat uneven between the two parties (regarding this), both are far too complicit to withhold contempt. The list of who hasn't been selling us out (fed, state and local) is much easier to keep track of.
>My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.
>Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".
As much as it's fun to dunk on conservatives for "fiber is woke", how can you fail to mention how at the time net neutrality was a hot issue, its proponents thought the repeal of net neutrality was going to be the end of the internet as we knew it, and that ISPs were going to have different internet packages depending on what sites you wanted to go to? How did that turn out?
My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.
Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".
Including and between the above has been a steady stream of lobbying cash by US telcos - yielding captured regulators, captured legislators and telco-written, anti-consumer laws.
And while the degree of corruption is somewhat uneven between the two parties (regarding this), both are far too complicit to withhold contempt. The list of who hasn't been selling us out (fed, state and local) is much easier to keep track of.
>My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.
>Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".
As much as it's fun to dunk on conservatives for "fiber is woke", how can you fail to mention how at the time net neutrality was a hot issue, its proponents thought the repeal of net neutrality was going to be the end of the internet as we knew it, and that ISPs were going to have different internet packages depending on what sites you wanted to go to? How did that turn out?
Pathetic