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Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Revoke their corporate charter, nationalize their infrastructure, sell it to municipal ISPs.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Shoot them all into the sun.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    apparently its less effort/energy to shoot them into deep space.

    but either way is good.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean yeah, the sun is in one place, space is basically anywhere else. It's easier to shoot anywhere than to shoot somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    hah, no, it really, really isn't like that at all. shooting straight north or south, for example, is really hard. going in the opposite direction of the earth's orbit is hard too.

    earth is spinning around the sun. going in the direction the earth is trying to escape the sun from is easy.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    I have a pretty reasonable grasp of delta V. While my comment is flippant, you can launch Eastward from the equator any day and end up in space: deep space if you have sufficient velocity (though usually you'd do that with one or more gravity assists). The sun is the only other place you can go any day, but there's huge angular velocity to overcome to make a direct shot.

    It really really is the case mathematically that if you just want to go to deep space it's not as difficult as trying to figure out how to go to a particular place, as anyone who has ever done trajectory planning with STK will tell you. More difficult from a cost and engineering perspective, sure, but mathematically easier to just shoot in a direction at escape velocity for the sun whatever day you want.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nah, just allow communities to build their local infrastructure. Trust me. You don’t need to threaten the status quo, just allow the market to compete.

    Every town where local fiber is available, Comcast and Spectrum suddenly have cheaper and more reliable service. It’s magical.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean yeah that's what monopolies do. They eliminate competition by either buying it out or lowering their prices/improving service to drive them out of business so they can then raise prices again. Just cause a small company can come in and make things better while they're able to be around doesn't mean we shouldn't go after these monopolies and cut them down so they can't have this power.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Municipal broadband is not a small company though. It’s a cooperative owned by residents.

    And in many states it’s actually illegal. Which makes no sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I lived in Charlotte, NC when Google announced GFiber was coming. Instantly AT&T started running as much fiber as possible and Charter(spectrum) was trying to get people locked into cheaper 3 year contracts. Ultimately AT&T got fiber first so we went with them, and it was vastly better. Charter was getting 60% packet loss every night from oversold infrastructure they didn't care to fix, as before the announcement the only competition was AT&T uverse in some parts of the city.

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