T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
 ·Time Warner Cable
| Good for Lafayette!
If freekin AT&T won't build it then why can't the city do it? Hopefully this will establish precedent. The message to the telcos should be clear: you've recieved government subsidization to build, you exclusively have the right of ways and the resources SO NOW BUILD IT or someone else will and your going to lose your monopoly.
But rather than build it, they are spending their resources on lawsuits, lobbying and using totally unethical "astro turf" campaigns to stop Lafayettes progress. That is what is happening. AT&T is telling Lafayette that they do not have the right to advance their cities technology infastructure. 
So are we going to allow AT&T to decide which cities get an infastructure and which one's don't? |
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GhostDoggy
join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
| The city isn't planning on acting like traditional competition in the free marketplace. They are a not-for-profit institution that seeks to subvert the free market, which in the end will only make matters worse.
And when the local sherif starts snooping your home network, because 'they can', you will simply bend over and take it like the good little man they want you to be. Governments don't like nor support privacy, and you are supporting this government.
Now lets have a look at your hard drives.  |
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T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
·Time Warner Cable
| What company would be stupid enough to take on the telcos? Are you going to enter a market and go head to head with the telcos when you know its going to cost you 3 years and $20 million in litigation just to get started? Hell no. The government is the only one who is going to take on that burden and they will do that for the betterment of the community because there is no profit in it.
I think that the local sheriff will be breaking the law if he hacks into my home computer even if I am on his network. And secondly if I'm that worried about being on the cities network then I can keep on using the AT&T phone line for dial up at 56K. Hmm, so 56K or 1.5Mbps and a risk that Sheriff Roscoe might break the law and hack me looking for receipts that I sold plutonium and children to ......
A choice is not a bad thing. Even if its a choice between the government or a company.  |
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| reply to GhostDoggy
said by GhostDoggy  :And when the local sherif starts snooping your home network, because 'they can', you will simply bend over and take it like the good little man they want you to be. Governments don't like nor support privacy, and you are supporting this government. Now lets have a look at your hard drives. And AT&T sure has a great track record of protecting customers' privacy. Looks to me like they already bent over for the feds.
If you think a major corporation gives a damn about your privacy, forget it. They don't care about you one bit. They answer to their shareholders, and unless you happen to hold enough stock to make a real stink about something, you won't even get their attention. |
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